[MlMt] Solution to the "Reply to HTML" problem?

[mail at assai.com.au]

Thanks :-)

On 13 Mar 2014, at 21:32, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 13 Mar 2014, at 8:49, mail at assai.com.au wrote:
>
>> Right now, if you reply to an HTML message—even one that you have 
>> yourself generated using Markdown—you end up with gobbledegook in 
>> the inclusion.
>
> Replying to a MailMate-generated Markdown message should work without 
> problems, but in general you are right. Replying to HTML messages does 
> not work well.
>
>> However, Forward as Attachment maintains the formatting.
>>
>> Would it be be possible to add a "Reply as Attachment" (or Reply with 
>> Attachment--but to me the first is clearer) which is the same as 
>> "Reply as Attachment", except that the original senders populate the 
>> resulting email.
>
> It would be possible (if the user prefers top-posting), but it's not 
> certain that all receiving email clients/services would handle it 
> well. “Forward as Attachment” is also often not an ideal solution 
> when forwarding.
>
>> Does that make sense? Would that be of use to anyone else?
>
> I'm still considering various solutions to this problem. There is no 
> perfect solution, but hopefully I'll come up with something that works 
> better than it does now.
>
> -- 
> Benny
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