[MlMt] forwarding HTML emails

[Tracy Valleau]

Thanks, Robert. Yours is a very good suggestion, and I'll check my 
configs soon!

Thank you.

Tracy
www.valleau.art




On 18 Jan 2018, at 9:00, mailmate-request at lists.freron.com wrote:

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> From: "Robert Brenstein" <mailmate at learning-insights.eu>
> To: "MailMate Users" <mailmate at lists.freron.com>
> Subject: Re: [MlMt] forwarding HTML emails
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> 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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> Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 09:33:36 -0500
> From: "Verdon Vaillancourt" <verdonv at gmail.com>
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> Thanks for that tip!
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> On 18 Jan 2018, at 9:25, Robert Brenstein wrote:
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>> (I use Prefs Editor app for easy viewing).
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