Have you considered creating an MHTML (Web archive document) document, that way things will look the same as we you created it and "stay put" at the receiving end. You can use CDO (or Word) to create an MHTML document and also use CDO to send it.


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>Jeeze, this post really brings out the heavyweights :-)
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>In this case HTML is, for various reasons, not an option.
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>I found, that if I send plain text via an SMTP Client and view the message in Outlook, it's formatted, font and all, exactly as it was sent.
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>How come?
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>Unfortunately this is not an option, because we have to have a copy of the message in Outlooks Sent folder, and I have not found a SMTP Client that will do that.
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>Is it possible to force Outlook to send via SMTP? Any other suggestions?