[MlMt] HTML format of messages

[AC-Martin]

On 14 Dec 2014, at 8:25, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> This depends on the receiving email client.

In this case, it's MailMate.  I'm getting my own list messages back. :)

> MailMate only generates HTML when needed which means that when it's 
> not needed then the receiving email client is likely to, e.g., show a 
> blue bar.

I see.

> If HTML is generated then it is more unpredictable. MailMate would 
> have a default styling (blue bar), but some email clients have no 
> default and would just indent the text.

I'm looking at my own reply in MailMate.  I'll need to look at some of 
these messages in other clients that I have.

> No, currently MailMate does not do any styling of outgoing HTML 
> messages. The font used in the Composer is only for your eyes and it 
> should always be the same font/size (you can change it via Format ▸ 
> Show Fonts).

Very odd then....

> This sounds like a specific problem between MailMate and some other 
> email client. Hard to say who is to blame, but if you send me an 
> example then I might be able to tell you :-) MailMate bases its reply 
> on the plain text body part of the received email. You can switch to 
> this body part using “View ▸ Message Body Parts” to see what 
> MailMate uses as input for the generated reply.

Ok.  I'll send you more off-list.

Thanks!

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Curtis acm