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<p dir="auto">On 17 Mar 2018, at 0:23, Scott A. McIntyre wrote:</p>
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<div style="white-space:normal"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><p dir="auto">I was certain this was discussed in the past, but, I couldn't find it in the mail archives anywhere, nor the hidden preferences.</p>
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<p dir="auto">There is no preference to change the use of <code style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:3px; margin:0; padding:0 0.4em" bgcolor="#F7F7F7">></code> in the plain text part of emails. This is because it would be very wrong to do that.</p>
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<div style="white-space:normal"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><p dir="auto">One of the (infinite) infuriating things about Outlook seems to be that when it receives email where quoted lines in replies are prefaced with ">" it will effectively ignore the characters and only create a mild indentation on the screen of the unfortunate Outlook user.</p>
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<p dir="auto">I don't think that happens if you send a plain text email. The problem is likely that Outlook has problem with the HTML generated by MailMate.</p>
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<div style="white-space:normal"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><p dir="auto">Is there a way to change this in MailMate so that some other symbol/character is used? I think that the HTML composer uses something that looks like a |, which would probably be okay.<br>
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In manual testing, Outlook actually displayed that character, which is good.</p>
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<p dir="auto">It's not a character in MailMate. It's just the styling (CSS) of a “blockquote”.</p>
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<div style="white-space:normal"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><p dir="auto">Just wondering what the best way is of maintaining proper inline quotation, which renders sanely.</p>
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<p dir="auto">We should perhaps check that MailMate sends styled HTML when you test this. You can forward me one of your sent messages using “Message ▸ Forward as Attachment” and I'll check it. (Check that you have a theme specified for the “Default Theme” setting in the Composer preferences pane.)</p>
<p dir="auto">A more general problem is that it's very hard for me to test how other email clients interpret the HTML generated by MailMate. Every time I make a change then it works better in one email client and worse in some other email client. For now, I've simply postponed changing themes until I've convinced myself that I should pay for something like <a href="https://litmus.com" style="color:#3983C4">Litmus</a>. It's a bit expensive when I know that I would likely only use it a few times a year.</p>
<p dir="auto">It's not unlikely that it's impossible to generate HTML which works well for all email clients :-|</p>
<p dir="auto">-- <br>
Benny</p>
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