Re: [Evolution] html messages converted to plain text?

[Mike Wilson <mwilson ketchumtrading com>]

Any idea if this is improved in more recent versions of MS Exchange? I
believe we will be migrating from Exchange 2007 to the latest version
at some point in the next few months. (I'm guessing it won't, but I'm
crossing my fingers.)

On Fri, 2016-07-15 at 12:18 -0500, Johnson, Brett E (HPE Linux
Enablement) wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-07-14 at 14:12 +0000, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> > I think I got some additional insights:  It is the EWS connector,
> > or our 
> > version of Exchange.
> As others have alluded, this is the problem.  When you send email via
> the EWS
> connector, the message is handed to the msexchange server in a
> base64-encoded
> blob, then msexchange takes it apart and mangles it according to
> server-set
> rules/configuration before sending it out to recipients, then another
> level of
> mangling happens if msexchange needs to convert it into SMTP email.
>  It's a
> mess, which has nothing to do with evolution, and everything to do
> with the EWS
> protocol and msexchange.