: hi there, i've done an encryption for the password and a password retrival page for the user. now when the email is sent the password is displayed as haha%%--%% instead of just haha(an example). Anyone can tell me how to get rid of the redundant symbols?
First you need to find out if it's the e-mail client or your code causing the symbols to show up. Try outputting the content of the message to the screen before you e-mail it, and see if the symbols show up there. If they do, you'll need to post your code for us to help fix the problem. If they don't show up, that means it's probably the client doing it.
I found out that Outlook Express inserts characters into messages when it wraps really long lines. So what I do to solve that is add some linefeeds manually. For example:
Old Style:
strMsg = "Imagine this to be a really long line<br>"
strMsg = strMsg & "And imagine this to be another really long line<br>"
strMsg = strMsg & "And yet another really long line<br>"
objEmail.Body = strMsg
I have HTML <br> tags in there to make the output show up on the next line, but the string itself is one huge line. When Outlook wraps that line, I get funny characters. So this is what I use instead now:
New Style:
strMsg = "Imagine this to be a really long line<br>" & vbCrlf
strMsg = strMsg & "And imagine this to be another really long line<br>" & vbCrlf
strMsg = strMsg & "And yet another really long line<br>" & vbCrlf
objEmail.Body = strMsg
Now when Outlook receives the message it will be 3 seperate long lines, instead of one extremely long line.
Maybe that's not the same problem you're having, but it's good to know for future reference either way
