[MlMt] MailMate Reply to iPhone Mail Message

[Bill Cole]

On 2025-04-04 at 08:48:50 UTC-0400 (Fri, 04 Apr 2025 08:48:50 -0400)
Zak McClellan <mailmate at lists.freron.com>
is rumored to have said:

> This happens with messages received from iPhone Mail.
>
> When I attempt to reply, the body of the message is blank/empty. The 
> original message/thread is gone. Creating a message that appears to be 
> new and not a reply.

Cannot reproduce as described...

> I attempted to begin a draft on my phone using Mail and Preside saving 
> it to drafts. Returning to my computer using MailmMte I opened the 
> draft "Edit as New Message..."  MailMate retrieved this message 
> without rendering the draft for editing:
>
> "Sorry, MailMate was unable to derive a plain text part when creating 
> this email."

"Edit as New Message" is not a reply, it is (in this case) an attempt by 
MailMate to adopt a message saved as a draft by another program, which 
is unreliable at best.

> The message appears as usual in the Inbox. It's the reply that goes 
> blank.
>
> Anyone else having this issue?  Have a solution?

The solution is to not expect any mail client to understand how other 
mail clients construct incomplete drafts. Mail.app in particular may 
create unusual MIME structures when replying to HTML mail which other 
clients may not be able to transform into their own idea of what a reply 
does to the original content.

> MailMate 1.14 (5895)

As noted: despite it being the release version, 1.14 is a bit stale. I'm 
not hopeful for it fixing this particular problem, but for modern macOS 
(since Big Sur) you will get better general behavior out of the current 
test version, r6241.



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