[MlMt] forwarding HTML emails

[Robert Brenstein]

I have been using MM for one year only but I haven’t seen any real 
issues with forwarding HTML mails. If I forward the whole mail, and I do 
it almost daily, it seem to be quoted intact. I can see that using the 
preview in composer (composer itself displays only the text). 
Occasionally, a forwarded email will become an attachment but I suspect 
that has to do with how that email was formatted or rather embedded on 
the way to me. If I select a subset of HTML-formatted email to forward, 
MM strips the original HTML code and replaces with simple color-coded 
quoting layers. It is not always optimal but I understand that it is 
virtually impossible to correctly carry on a subset of an 
HTML/CSS-formatted email, considering how widely different and not 
always correct those are set up. I can turn on markdown mode and bold or 
italic some texts as needed.

Since you are such a long-time user, I wonder whether you do not have 
some settings set that affect the way your instance of MM operates. May 
be you should carefully review your config file (I use Prefs Editor app 
for easy viewing).

Robert

On 17 Jan 2018, at 21:21, Tracy Valleau wrote:

>> 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.
>
> I was simplifying to express my request clearly.
>
> HTML email is a few headers and HTML content. It is not any more 
> complex than a web page, basically.
>
> The issue is that when forwarding, MM strips out all the HTML code. 
> Try viewing the source of an HTML email and you'll see what I mean.
>
> My point is that the original source is IN the email, else I'd not see 
> it all prettified, eh? So it's there.
>
> Why not "just" forward ALL that original source? The head, the tables, 
> the divs, the body... That way the recipient would see what I see.
>
> I can understand not doing it for "political" reasons ("all email 
> should be text"). What I don't understand is why it isn't an option. 
> Mail can do it; Outlook can do it; Thunderbird can do it; PostBox can 
> do it... 
>
> As a programmer with over 40 years of experience, I -can- understand 
> boxing one's self in to a point at which integrating the capability is 
> a huge amount of work. That would be a legitimate reason for not 
> offering it (albeit unfortunate.)
>
> But from a USER perspective, not being able to "just forward" HTML 
> email is odd, and from a recipient's standpoint... well in my 4 
> decades, I've -never- received an email that said "to see the html 
> version, click on the attachment."
>
> Best wishes, 
>
> Tracy
> www.valleau.art
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