[MlMt] MailMate Reply to iPhone Mail Message

[Randall Gellens]

On 4 Apr 2025, at 6:28, Bill Cole wrote:

> 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.

To follow on to what Bill wrote, rather than save the message on your 
iPhone as a draft, try sending it to yourself, and then reply or edit as 
new message in MailMate.

--Randall