[MlMt] Outlook style reply styling

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 25 Apr 2018, at 17:10, Bill Cole wrote:

> On 25 Apr 2018, at 10:24, Arnau Rebassa wrote:
>
>> I have discovered a “strange” behaviour in Mailmate replaying 
>> outlook
>> mails. Where I work we use office.com, so when I reply an email from 
>> one of
>> my colleagues, the vertical line for quoted text is not displayed 
>> unless I
>> jump to very bottom of the email and I modify my signature. Something 
>> so
>> stupid to add an space and then remove it.
>>
>> I don’t know if Benny has any explanation for this behaviour.
>
> If you use the "Embed" functionality of the MailMate composer and 
> reply to a HTML message, MailMate starts the reply message with a 
> pristine full copy of the original message's HTML. If you do any 
> editing that requires modification of that object or simply a fresh 
> rendering of the HTML that MailMate generates itself, the embedded 
> message can get redrawn differently than it was when initially 
> starting the composition. I'm unsure *WHY* that redrawing results in 
> the appearance changing, nut I have watched it happen.

MailMate does not allow the user to edit the original HTML. *If* the 
user tries to do that then it's converted to plain text (or an existing 
plain text alternative is used). The end result might still be an HTML 
email if Markdown is used, an HTML signature is used, or all outgoing 
emails are styled (an option in the Composer preferences pane). For most 
emails this is fine and the end result is going to be a cleaner email 
(all of it generated by MailMate). Embedding HTML is primarily useful 
for emails with heavy use of styling (most often some kind of marketing 
emails).

In other words, it's fine to force MailMate to drop the embedded HTML 
when it's not really needed. Using in-between replies, as I do, forces 
this to almost always happen.

-- 
Benny
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