Unfortunately, this is a change you have to make in Outlook, not in your configuration for using VIM.

In Outlook, go to the Tools menu and select Options. Click the "Mail Format" tab, and change the "Compose in this message format" from "Rich Text" to "Plain Text". The problem is then solved, and you have your nice indentation and mail config.

I'm in this same boat again today, since I'm working a new job where they use Outlook exclusively. And, in this case, Outlook is extremely tied-in to their basic management systems, so using Mutt to the exclusion out Outlook is no longer an option (sigh)... So I came back to this page this morning to remember how I did it!

Anyway, changing those options will do the trick. The one annoyance left is that with the latest patches to Outlook, every time I launch this I get a prompt saying "A program is trying to access your Address Book", and I have to click "Yes" to allow it to run. It's only one extra click, but I do this in part for convenience. I've been digging around trying to figure out how to turn this off for a signed, truested vbscript, but no luck.

However, the tips above on signing your own code work great to make it work appropriately, with the exception of that annoying pop-up every time I compose a mail message.

The price I pay for being a UNIX geek, I guess... maybe I'll go back to using Mutt on Cygwin for email, and just use LookOut for calendars, contacts, etc.

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Matthew P. Barnson