Strange encrpted letters in my emails. HELP!!

[sandcar@prodigy.net]

For a month or more,my emails have been unreadable at the other end. When someone gets one, it looks like I have typed it in a foreign language or sometimes it just has the letters "Y" with two dots over it and then the letter "P". Like this: "yp". That's all that shows up. No message even tho I have typed one.

I have changed no settings. Have I contracted a virus that is playing tricks with my email? Is it an internal problem with my computer?

I have an HP (1998) Windows 98; Outlook Express 5.0.

If anyone knows what is going on, PLEASE get back to me. This is most annoying. I never know when this is going to happen. Once or three times a day.

HELP IS REALLY NEEDED!! Thanks in advance.
Sandcar

[jray]

In outlook express, go to Tools\Options\Send and change the Mail Sending Format to plain text, see if that helps.
Do you have any anti-virus software? If so, download the latest virus definitions and run full system scan.

[sharder8]

I ran into this problem several years ago. Not all providers use the same protocols and while some e-mails are readable to some, they are giberish to others.

In my case, anything I received from my brother at hotmail, I could read. Anything that I sent him, was giberish. That is when I went back to using Eudora Pro, it seems to be the most compatible with everyone.

Try downloading Eudora Pro at www.eudora.com (http://www.eudora.com) and see if that clears up the problem.

Harder