oe6 reading mail showing as html raw source?

Success!!!

After drilling around and looking at different parts of the registry that were suspect to me, I got very lucky and found the needle in the haystack.

The registry setting that causes this to happen is:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Internet Settings]
"IsTextPlainHonored"=dword:00000001

If this registry key is deleted, the problem is corrected.

This is what Bill Kearney must have deleted that fixed his problem. I suspect he messed around with some values in the \International registry key *after* he deleted the "IsTextPlainHonored" dword value, but *before* he checked back in Outlook Express, thus leading him to mistakenly believe that settings in the \International key were the cause.

This registry key was created by Microsoft to solve the following problem:

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;329661

It's obviously not intended to be a permanent fix for that specific problem because it causes other ones.

I have no idea how this key got on to my computer.