[MlMt] forwarding HTML emails

Benny Kjær Nielsen mailinglist at freron.com
Wed Jan 17 05:49:04 EST 2018


On 17 Jan 2018, at 6:02, Bill Cole wrote:

>> why can't it (just)  forward them?
>
> This is fundamentally problematic because "just forward them" does not 
> have a well-defined technical meaning other than embedding the full 
> original message as an attachment. If you want something else, I 
> *THINK* the MM options for tweaking HTML forwarding should give you 
> something you can live with.

Yes, both 1.10 and 2.0BETA has the ability to embed the original HTML 
when needed. This is very similar to what other email clients do except 
for the fact that you cannot edit the HTML. If you try then MailMate 
tells you that it'll convert it to plain text first.

It's very tricky (for all email clients) to embed HTML, because HTML 
wasn't designed for this purpose. MailMate uses an external CSS inliner 
(Premailer) to work around most of these problems, but as previously 
discussed on this list then this can be slow at times.

(The problem of embedding HTML is even bigger for webmail clients.)

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Benny
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