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Sometimes my outgoing emails show all HTML tags and is hard to read. How do I fix this?

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This is what my last outgoing email looked like as I viewed it in "Sent":

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

Hi Folks!

Here's our newsletter for this year -- hope you enjoy it Let us know what's going on in your world, and may we all have a prosperous 2017!!

Merry Christmas!

~ Mick, Sarine, Rukky, and Rosie

The Anderson 'Pack'

This is what my last outgoing email looked like as I viewed it in "Sent": <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <p>Hi Folks!</p> <p>Here's our newsletter for this year -- hope you enjoy it Let us know what's going on in your world, and may we all have a prosperous 2017!!</p> <p>Merry Christmas!</p> <p>~ Mick, Sarine, Rukky, and Rosie</p> <p>The Anderson 'Pack'<br> </p> </body> </html>

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The above example is not what I copied into the box -- it was all HTML tags and other programming symbols I don't understand. It doesn't happen every time.

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sounds like yo might have a bad index, right click the folder, select properties and then repair. note the local path when on the properties. Make sure your anti virus has an exclusion to scanning that location at any time but full scans.