Invalid Mime Content Error Code 19736 Outlook For Mac

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Im running 2016 on probably 25 Mac's and haven't seen this issue yet, but I have had weird issues with Outlook in general that aren't worth the time messing with and just adding the account back again will fix saving all of our times.

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MIME types describe the media type of content, either in email, or served by web servers or web applications. They are intended to help provide a hint as to how the content should be processed and displayed.

Examples of MIME types:

  • Powered by Peatix: More than a ticket.
  • The following warnings are presented by web browsers when you access a site that has a security certificate installed (for SSL/TLS data encryption) that cannot be verified by the browser. Internet Explorer: 'The security certificate presented by this website was not issued by a trusted certificate.
  • Fixes a problem that occurs when you browse any custom MIME type file that has a registered mime handler in Internet Explorer. Also describes two workarounds for this problem.
  • Both of the mentioned errors are caused by the invalid MIME content of the message - this basically means that items are corrupted. Such items may be fully accessible in Outlook or OWA but are considered impossible to be migrated as some of their properties invisible to the end-user, but required for migration, are missing or broken.
  • text/html for HTML documents.
  • text/plain for plain text.
  • text/css for Cascading Style Sheets.
  • text/javascript for JavaScript files.
  • text/markdown for Markdown files.
  • application/octet-stream for binary files where user action is expected.

Server default configurations vary wildly and set different default MIME-type values for files with no defined content type.

Versions of the Apache Web Server before before 2.2.7 were configured to report a MIME type of text/plain or application/octet-stream for unknown content types. Modern versions of Apache report none for files with unknown content types.

Nginx will report text/plain if you don't define a default content type.

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As new content types are invented or added to web servers, web administrators may fail to add the new MIME types to their web server's configuration. This is a major source of problems for users of browsers that respect the MIME types reported by web servers and applications.

Why are correct MIME types important?

If a web server or application reports an incorrect MIME type for content (including a 'default type' for unknown content), a web browser has no way of knowing the author's intentions. This may cause unexpected behavior.

Some web browsers, such as Internet Explorer, try to guess the correct MIME type. This allows misconfigured web servers and applications to continue working for those browsers (but not other browsers that correctly implement the standard). Apart from violating the HTTP spec, this is a bad idea for a couple of other significant reasons:

Loss of control
If the browser ignores the reported MIME type, web administrators and authors no longer have control over how their content is to be processed.
For example, a web site oriented for web developers might wish to send certain example HTML documents as either text/html or text/plain in order to have the documents either processed and displayed as HTML or as source code. If the browser guesses the MIME type, this option is no longer available to the author.
Security
Some content types, such as executable programs, are inherently unsafe. For this reason, these MIME types are usually restricted in terms of what actions a web browser will take when given that type of content. An executable program should not be executed on the user's computer and should at least cause a dialog to appear asking the user if they wish to download the file.
MIME type guessing has led to security exploits in Internet Explorer that were based upon a malicious author incorrectly reporting a MIME type of a dangerous file as a safe type. This bypassed the normal download dialog, resulting in Internet Explorer guessing that the content was an executable program and then running it on the user's computer.

JavaScript legacy MIME types

When looking for information about JavaScript MIME types, you may see several MIME types that reference JavaScript. Some of these MIME types include:

  • application/javascript
  • application/ecmascript
  • application/x-ecmascript
  • application/x-javascript
  • text/ecmascript
  • text/javascript1.0
  • text/javascript1.1
  • text/javascript1.2
  • text/javascript1.3
  • text/javascript1.4
  • text/javascript1.5
  • text/x-ecmascript
  • text/x-javascript

While browsers may support any, some, or all of these alternative MIME types, you should only use text/javascript to indicate the MIME type of JavaScript files.

Note: See MIME types (IANA media types) for more information.

How to determine the MIME type to set

There are several ways to determine the correct MIME type value to be used to serve your content.

  • If your content was created using commerical software, read the vendor's documentation to see what MIME types should be reported for the application.
  • Look in IANA's MIME Media Types registry, which contains information on all registered MIME types.
  • Search for the file extension in FILExt or the File extensions reference to see what MIME types are associated with that extension. Pay close attention as the application may have multiple MIME types that differ by only one letter.

How to check the MIME type of received content

  • In Firefox
    • Load the file and go to Tools > Page Info to get the content type for the page you accessed.
    • You can also go to Tools > Web Developer > Network and reload the page. The request tab gives you a list of all the resources the page loaded. Clicking on any resource will list all the information available, including the page's Content-Typeheader.
  • In Chrome
    • Load the file and go to View > Developer > Developer Tools and choose the Network tab. Reload the page and select the resource you want to inspect. Under headers look for Content-Type and it will report the content type of the resource.
  • Look for a <meta> element in the page source that gives the MIME type, for example <meta http-equiv='Content-Type'>.
    • According to the standards, the <meta> element that specifies the MIME type should be ignored if there's a Content-Type header available.

IANA keeps a list of registered MIME Media Types. The HTTP specification defines a superset of MIME types, which is used to describe the media types used on the web.

How to set up your server to send the correct MIME types

The goal is to configure your server to send the correct Content-Type header for each document.

  • If you're using the Apache web server, check the Media Types and Character Encodings section of Apache Configuration: .htaccess for examples of different document types and their corresponding MIME types.
  • If you're using NGINX, look at the NGINX configuration snippets. NGINX does not have a .htaccess equivalent tool, so all changes will go into the main configuration file.
  • If you're using a server-side script or framework to generate content, the way to indicate the content type will depend on the tool you're using. Check the framework or library's documentation.

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MIME is an industry email standard. Many email applications create messages in MIME format and save them in files with the .EML extension.

Even though Outlook does not save messages in MIME format, there are two ways you can get an Outlook message body in MIME format:

  • You can append a $value segment to a get-message operation on that message.
  • If the message is attached to an Outlook item or group post, you can append a $value segment to a get-attachment operation on that item or group post.

In either case, your app must have the appropriate permissions to access the Outlook item or group post in order to apply the get-message or get-attachment operation.

You can then save the message body content in a .EML file and attach the file to records in business systems, such as those for CRM, ERP, and bug tracking.

What is MIME?

MIME is a standard used by internet email to transmit the following types of content via SMTP:

  • Plain text message
  • Message with alternative content (i.e., in both plain text and HTML)
  • Reply message with the original message attached
  • Text message with attachments of image, audio, video, or application files
  • Other message constructs

The following are typical MIME headers in a message. For more information, see RFC 2045.

  • MIME-Version - Indicates the message is MIME-formatted.
  • Content-Type - Indicates the media type of the message or a part of the message, represented by a type and subtype. It alsoincludes a boundary field which specifies a string as the MIME boundary or as the encapsulation boundary, depending on the location of Content-Type.
  • Content-Disposition - Provides details of an attachment such as its presentation style (inline or attachment), filenames, andcreation and last modification dates.
  • Content-Transfer-Encoding - Specifies the encoding method to represent binary data.

Get MIME content of an Outlook message

You can get the MIME representation of a message by appending the $value segment whengetting the message:

Example

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The following is an example that requests a message in the signed-in user's mailbox to be returned with its MIME content.

The following is the response. The MIME content begins with the MIME-Version header.

Get MIME content of an Outlook message attached to an Outlook item or group post

You can also get the MIME representation of an Outlook message, if the message has been attached to an Outlook event, message, task, or group post that your app can access.

To do that, identify the message attachment, and append the $value segment whengetting that attachment. The following shows a few common ways to access an attachment. See get attachment for more information.

If the message is attached to an event in the user's default calendar:

If the message is attached to another message in the user's mailbox:

If the message is attached to an Outlook task in the user's default task folder:

If the message is attached to the specified group post:

Example

The following is an example that gets a message that has been attached to another message, and returns the body in MIME format.

The following is the response. The MIME content begins with the MIME-Version header.

Invalid Mime Content Error Code 19736 Outlook For Mac Os

Next steps

Find out more about:

Invalid Mime Content Error Code 19736 Outlook For Mac Osx

  • Get the MIME content of an item attachment to an event, message, Outlook task, or group post
  • Using the mail API and its use cases in Microsoft Graph v1.0