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    Outlook for Mac sends plain text via Exchange


    2011 - 11.18

    Recently a new company merged in with my current one and all they brought with them was Macs. I’m already a linux geek so getting to grips with the funky Macs wasn’t too stressful as I just dropped to a Bash shell and played away at that level. It scares the Hell out of Mac users who are always so used to shiny GUI things.

    Anyway, one of the big gripes was that since they moved in and started using the Exchange server, all their externals mails turned to plain text. I checked in the spam filtering company and they didn’t make changes to the headers of the emails. Internally, HTML mail worked fine between users. It was driving me mad.

    After some serious google searching I came across RisualBlogs.com and they mentioned that a send connector was set to ContentType=MimeText and not MimeHtmlText.

    get-remotedomain | set-remotedomain -ContentType MimeHtmlText

    Tada! Fixed. Thanks guys!

    Fix BESx 5.0.3 webmin/console 404


    2011 - 11.14

    If you are running a BESx server on a Windows 2008 box, you may run in to a 404 error and it not work at all. The quick fix is usually because of Java and you need to regedit:

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\BAS-AS\Parameters\JVM Option Number 3

    Change from “-Xmx1024m” to “-Xmx768m”.

    Reboot and cross your fingers.