Have you ever seen e-mail software add HTML code to a received message?

[mikeymikec]

A customer has presented quite an odd scenario to me. They're using Outlook 2010, and initially they forwarded a copy of an e-mail that one of their recipients received from them that included just one portion of text set to 110pt and the rest reasonably normal. There's nothing unusual about the portion of text, it was typed just as the rest was and no additional formatting was intentionally applied. The message source suggests that the recipient's e-mail software is also Outlook. There's also this odd bit of code:

mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;}

I asked the customer to forward the original message he sent to me from his Sent folder, and there's no reference to 110pt font size or the far east bit.

AFAIK both users are in the UK. I suspect however that the recipient bought their computer in the far east, so there's some locale/region setting going on like making a UK keymap an optional layout but not the primary.

 

[mxnerd]

Check

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...er-being/698a54c5-61cd-42a9-b781-eb665d946b11

http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/email/large-fonts-in-messages/

 

[mikeymikec]

My customer is using Windows Defender so I'm pretty sure that won't have removed the decimal point, but if it's plausible that the AV scanner does it during the sending of a message, I guess it's just as plausible that it could do it when scanning mail being received. Thanks, I'll pass the message on.