[Dba-office] Setting a specific Outlook contact to always get plain text email

[John R Bartow]

To always send plain text emails to a specific contact (such as dba-office) you can set a field in Outlook contact to make sure that it get sent as plain text without you having to remember to do that :-)

In Outlook:
-open the contact you wish to always send plain text emails to
-double click on their email address link
-set the "Internet Format" dropdown to plain text. (If you have Outlook 2013/16 and that doesn't show up see below.)
-Save everything
-You are done

If you have Outlook 2013 or 2016 you may need to enable that option. 
And this is the part that is insane; 
For Outlook 2013 (version 15):

edit the registry key [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\Contactcard]
"turnonlegacygaldialog" to be a 1 instead of a zero.

If the key isn't there you have to add it.

Or you could copy the following 2 lines into notepad:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\Contactcard]
"turnonlegacygaldialog"=dword:00000001

Save it as plaintext.reg 
Then double click plaintext.reg to run it and do this all for you.
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For Outlook 2016 (version 16):

edit the registry key [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\Contactcard]
"turnonlegacygaldialog" to be a 1 instead of a zero.

If the key isn't there you have to add it.

Or you could copy the following 2 lines into notepad:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\Contactcard]
"turnonlegacygaldialog"=dword:00000001

Save it as plaintext.reg

Then double click plaintext.reg to run it and do this all for you.