I run XP and Outlook 2003 and I have this problem too.
It only started about 6 months ago but before then, everything was fine.

This problem occurs even when I am the only recipient of the email which was sent us To: and not Bcc I asked the sender)

Outlook receives my emails from 3 accounts/sources: Gmail, Hotmail and my email address with my ISP.
The emails are perfectly legible if I were to read them directly in gmail or hotmail etc. If I resend the legible emails from say hotmail to gmail or vice versa, I get mixed/random results ie some emails are garbled again but some come through normal!

I haven't got a clue why this happens but it is very frustrating.

Gordon Ching

I am having a very similar problem with my hotmail acct. Reading the emails
in IE7/hotmail website, all is very clear.
In my Outlook 2007 SP1 (OS Vista SP1) when I download into the hotmail
folder using http or the outlook connector,
my emails have a lot of strange characters. Happens to my emails from China
only.
Using XP Outlook Express, I dont get this problem when I download the paid
hotmail acct into OE.
I have been struggling with these two weeks already and no clue how to solve
this, am thinking of going back to XP
using outlook express!! Any help will be appreciated.


--
Stephen Sar


"Gordon Ching" wrote:

I run XP and Outlook 2003 and I have this problem too.
It only started about 6 months ago but before then, everything was fine.

This problem occurs even when I am the only recipient of the email which was sent us To: and not Bcc I asked the sender)

Outlook receives my emails from 3 accounts/sources: Gmail, Hotmail and my email address with my ISP.
The emails are perfectly legible if I were to read them directly in gmail or hotmail etc. If I resend the legible emails from say hotmail to gmail or vice versa, I get mixed/random results ie some emails are garbled again but some come through normal!

I haven't got a clue why this happens but it is very frustrating.

Gordon Ching

Please define "unreadable." What shows in your mail message? Nothing? Random characters?

What character set do you have set for your encoding? What happens if you change it to something else?

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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"Gordon Ching" wrote in message ...
I run XP and Outlook 2003 and I have this problem too.
It only started about 6 months ago but before then, everything was fine.

This problem occurs even when I am the only recipient of the email which was sent us To: and not Bcc I asked the sender)

Outlook receives my emails from 3 accounts/sources: Gmail, Hotmail and my email address with my ISP.
The emails are perfectly legible if I were to read them directly in gmail or hotmail etc. If I resend the legible emails from say hotmail to gmail or vice versa, I get mixed/random results ie some emails are garbled again but some come through normal!

I haven't got a clue why this happens but it is very frustrating.

Gordon Ching

I paste 2 samples below:
It only happens to some of my incoming emails which I rec fm China contacts
but other emails fm China are okay. I have random question marks instead of
new
line feed and space in between becomes random characters, some characters
also change to unreadable.
I have UTF-8 Enabled and now using rich text, but same happens with HTML.


Question marks appear frequently and then the unreadable characters:

?
2008-05-04
_____


???: Jia
????: 2008-05-04?5:00:11
???: sun
??: Cen
??: ??SGS??
?


Dear Mary,

?

Please kindly find below quotation,

1.燬ervice: 100%

a) Workmanship check;

b) Inspection Report;

2.?Inspection Products:

Men抯 Trousers牋牋牋 ?牋牋牋 3100 pcs?

Women抯 Trousers牋牋牋 牋 3900pcs?

====================================
Another sample below:

18:57:28?008-05-04
?
Dear Stephen,
?
It is (I have deleted part of the text here).
?
Any question please contact us at any time, thanks.
?
We are looking forward to receiveing your comments.
?
Best regards
Amanda?
?
_____

FM:�alesHYPERLINK "m
DD:?008-04-30?0:33:25


--
Stephen Sar


"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

Please define "unreadable." What shows in your mail message? Nothing?
Random characters?

What character set do you have set for your encoding? What happens if you
change it to something else?

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

"Gordon Ching" wrote in message ...
I run XP and Outlook 2003 and I have this problem too.
It only started about 6 months ago but before then, everything was fine.

This problem occurs even when I am the only recipient of the email which
was sent us To: and not Bcc I asked the sender)

Outlook receives my emails from 3 accounts/sources: Gmail, Hotmail and my
email address with my ISP.
The emails are perfectly legible if I were to read them directly in gmail
or hotmail etc. If I resend the legible emails from say hotmail to gmail
or vice versa, I get mixed/random results ie some emails are garbled again
but some come through normal!

I haven't got a clue why this happens but it is very frustrating.

Gordon Ching