Policy
Plain text options
Microsoft Office
Policy overview
Key metadata and intent for this policy.
This policy setting allows you to control how plain text messages are formatted when they are sent from Outlook. If you enable this policy setting, text is automatically wrapped in Internet e-mail messages and attachments are encoded in UUENCODE format. If you disable this policy setting, Outlook uses the standard MIME format to encode attachments in plain text Outlook messages. Users will not be able to change this configuration. If you do not configure this policy setting, the behavior is the equivalent of setting the policy to Disabled, but users can modify plain text options in Outlook when required by clicking Tools, clicking Options, clicking the Mail Format tab, clicking Internet Format, and changing the values under "Plain text options".
Registry values
How enabled and disabled states update the registry.
No explicit registry values are set for enabled or disabled states.
Policy elements
Inputs and configuration options exposed by this policy.
| Scope | Element | Type | Registry mapping | Constraints & behavior | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| User | Automatically wrap text at <x> characters. ID L_Automaticallywraptextatxcharacters | decimal | Path software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\common\mailsettings Value name plainwraplen Type REG_DWORD | Range: 30 to 132 | |
| User | Encode attachments in UUENCODE format ID L_EncodeattachmentsinUUENCODEformatwhensending1 | boolean | Path software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\outlook\options\mail Value name message plain format mime Type REG_DWORD | Options: true (0), false (1) True: Set value = 0 · False: Set value = 1 |