[MlMt] Disappearing and reappearing carriage returns in message viewer

Sherif Soliman sherif at ssoliman.com
Thu Oct 15 16:30:21 EDT 2015


On 8 Oct 2015, at 11:37, Sherif Soliman wrote:

> On 8 Oct 2015, at 9:42, Sherif Soliman wrote:
>
>> On 8 Oct 2015, at 9:32, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
>>
>>> On 8 Oct 2015, at 15:24, Sherif Soliman wrote:
>>>
>>>> I launched MailMate from the terminal:
>>>>
>>>> `/Applications/MailMate.app/Contents/MacOS/MailMate`
>>>>
>>>> I opened different messages until I found one that displayed the 
>>>> squished state, closed it, opened it again a few seconds later and 
>>>> it displayed properly this time. No output being produced in 
>>>> terminal. Should I be looking somewhere else?
>>>
>>> And this is just the viewer and not the composer?
>>>
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> This happens frequently with MailMate installed on two different 
>> machines, so I tried to think of what was common between the two and 
>> wasn't shared with other users (because no one else seems to be 
>> having this problem).
>>
>> I have a `stylesheet.css` placed in `~/Library/Application\ 
>> Support/MailMate/Resources/MmMessagesWebView` to make the indentation 
>> colours and style match those in Fastmail's web UI. I moved that file 
>> out of MmMessagesWebView and relaunched MailMate, and I can't 
>> reproduce the problem anymore. So maybe it was caused by the 
>> stylesheet.
>>
>> I've attached it to this message in case it helps you confirm that 
>> the problem was with using it. The styling of different blockquote 
>> levels helps me easily demarcate the levels visually so I would like 
>> to be able to use it without the associated problem (if the problem 
>> is indeed caused by the stylesheet).
>>
>
> I guess it's not the stylesheet.
>
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/aqywuc391f455n4/Screenshot%202015-10-08%2011.36.16.png?dl=0

This still happens very frequently, and it's weird that no one else 
seems to be having this issue.

Any thoughts or ideas on what I could do to debug or fix? Should I try 
nuking MailMate and all its associated files, reinstall and redownload 
all my email?

Sherif


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