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I send HTML report emails to customers, which display nicely on most email clients. When displayed in Outlook 2013, the following message is sometimes displayed:

if there are problems with how this message is displayed, click here to view it in a web browser.

I would like to get rid of this message. This post suggests removing all thead and tbody tags from the message (there aren't any in my HTML code) and replace inline CSS with embedded CSS, which I can't do because other mail clients have problems with non-inline CSS.

Are there any known ways to prevent this message from showing?

Uwe Keim
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Tzach
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    You might need to post your code... – John Oct 28 '13 at 16:12
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    [Here is another suggestion](http://www.emailsignature.eu/phpBB2/how-to-get-view-in-browser-link-in-outlook-2010-t1550.html) which suggests to add `` at the bottom of the HTML email body. – Uwe Keim Oct 02 '14 at 09:42

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I found that by adding the following to the head section of the page, that the message is not displayed.

<meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document">

I learned this by saving a nearly blank word document as HTML and selectively removing bloat over and over until I narrowed it down to this. In my case, the email was being sent using TSQL in SQL Server 2008 R2 via the msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail function.

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  • I did all three things: got rid of any `thead` and `tbody`, added that "Word.Document" meta tag and added the `` at the end of my HTML body. I don't know which actually worked, but now my sent emails don't trigger the Outlook 2013 warning anymore. – Uwe Keim Oct 02 '14 at 10:02
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    This solved my issue without having to remove thead and tbody tags from my markup. – Chris Porter Dec 08 '14 at 16:16
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Thanks to @Uwe Keim (above) and his solution (from a page that doesn't exist anymore):

add 

<span style="padding: 0px;"></span>

to the bottom of the email, right before the closing body tag. That's it. No need to get rid of all the deprecated stuff (that Mailchimp always adds)!

Malachi
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