[MlMt] When MailMate opens mail from a MailMate user

[Robert McClure]

I'm not even in the same universe as you two on the use of email 
nuances, but I do notice that when someone sends me a table, or I paste 
a table into MailMate, I loose all the special formatting. As with Kee, 
this is a significant problem in the business world, especially for 
those of us where tables occur frequently. I haven't been able to follow 
this thread so am struggling to understand a workaround if it's even 
described by Kee. So can someone explain to me if this functionality is 
simply not supported by MailMate? And if so, Kee, do you have a solution 
that mere mortals can understand?

--
Rob
Sharkez at g

On 18 Feb 2014, at 15:14, Kee Hinckley wrote:

> When it comes down to it, the main reason I'm using MultiMarkdown is 
> that I need to be able to reply to HTML emails without losing the 
> HTML. I can't blow away the table my manager sent me in a reply. I 
> don't need to edit it--it's Exchange, nobody inline replies--but I 
> can't let it get nuked--especially since that screws up the entire 
> assumption that if you have the most recent message, you can delete 
> all the others.
>
> So what is necessary for MailMate to be usable in this environment?
>
> Ideally, the ability to top-reply to a mail message and have the HTML 
> being replied to appear in a pane in the bottom, with the two merged 
> when I send the message.
>
> Until then, I do the following.
>
> ```
> {	name    = 'HTML to SemiCanonical';
> 	events  = ( 'email.reply', 'email.forward' );
> 	input   = 'html';
> 	output  = 'canonical';
> 	select  = "content-type.type = text and content-type.subtype = html 
> and from.domain = 'tivo.com'";
> 	script  = '#!/usr/bin/env bash\n/Users/nazgul/bin/t\n';
> 	uuid    = '5DF480C9-2400-427A-9B01-52391F84DC7B';
> 	disabled = 0;
> }
> ```
>
> and the script
>
> ```
> #!/usr/bin/env bash
>
> tidy --quiet yes --wrap 0 --input-encoding utf8 --output-encoding utf8 
> --force-output 1 --show-warnings no | \
>  perl -e '
>      while (<>) {
>          s/<\/?(head|meta|html|!DOCTYPE|title)[^>]*>//ig;
>          s/<\/?html[^>]*>//ig;
>          s/<body/<div/ig;
>          s/<\/body/<\/div/ig;
>          print;
>      }
>  '
> ```
>
> That brings up some manageable HTML in the window, which MailMate then 
> prefixes with '> ', which MultiMarkdown then turns into wrapping with 
> block quote tags. Last time I tested, sundown didn't handle quoting 
> HTML that way. If that changed, this would work with it as well. (For 
> a while, I had the script generate a set of editor actions which 
> selected the content of the message, removed the '> ' and wrapped it 
> with blockquote tags, but that was more than a little hacky.
>
> Of course, this is all hacky, but otherwise I wouldn't be able to use 
> MailMate at work.
>
> P.S. Benny, have you considered sending the CSS you use to display 
> messages along with the HTML message? So that things like blockquotes 
> appear to the receiver the same way they appear in MailMate, even if 
> they don't have 
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