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Microsoft => Microsoft Windows => Windows Vista and 7 => Topic started by: pinwill on January 30, 2010, 07:37:39 AM

Title: email "To" and "Subject" lines
Post by: pinwill on January 30, 2010, 07:37:39 AM

I'm using Windows 7, Outlook 2003, and I.E.8  and Firefox
My wife's web site has an email link that auto inserts predefined "Subject" content depending on which link is used.  When I click on a link, a new blank email pops up as usual but instead of the subject being in the "Subject" line, it's inserted into the "To" line (as "?subject=blabla") right behind the recipient's address.  Trying to send the email then results in a failure.  Using another computer with Outlook Express installed works properly.
I then checked other web sites and encounter the same problem.  I've searched everywhere in Outlook for a setting to change but have found nothing that resolves the problem.  I tried running Outlook in compatibility mode but then I can't even get a blank email to come up.
I've posted the question in an Outlook Forum and a Windows 7 forum but have received no answers.  I'm hoping for better luck here!  Thanks

Title: Re: email "To" and "Subject" lines
Post by: killerb255 on January 31, 2010, 10:30:40 PM

That sounds more like a website problem than an Outlook problem.

The website's HTML/PHP/ASP/whatever code needs to be written to detect Outlook 2003 (and, while you're at it, 2007 and 2010) and insert the fields in the right spots.

You might as well include Outlook Express 6, Vista's Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, and Mozilla Thunderbird as well.