[MlMt] Different text content in plain text and HTML part

[Stephan Kleiber]

Hi Henry,

thanks your your suggestions. I do know how to work around this – of 
course, I could just a different date format. Both of your examples work 
because they’re not parsed as an ordered list by MailMate. 
Unfortunately, that’s not how dates are usually written in German. I 
had hoped for a solution that doesn’t require me to actively remember 
what to do and what to avoid.

Your’re also right that part of the problem is that I usually view 
emails in plaintext and that I didn’t check for any differences 
between the plaintext and the HTML part before sending the message – 
but that’s because I didn’t expect any. I appreciate your offer for 
helping me with MailMate’s settings, but I’m quite experienced in 
this regard. Also, I don’t consider my view configuration to be the 
core of the problem here.

In the meantime, I’ve extended MailMate’s Attachents Check Pattern 
to include the names of the months. It’s cumbersome and it’s not 
what it’s meant for, but at least it gives me an extra clue to check 
the message text before sendung in case it contains a date.

Cheers
Stephan

On 25 Nov 2025, at 21:45, Henry Seiden wrote:

> Stephan,
>
> Have you tried using more common or military dates like:
> 1. 11MAY2025
> 2. 24SEP2025
> 3. 30NOV2025
>
> ****
> EU setup:
> A. 11/05/2025
> B. 09/24/2025
> C. 30/11/2025
> ****
> If you can receive/see this in HTML format, have a look.
>
> My window settings for display (View/Layout/Three Panes) shows me as 
> it says, three panes one being the HTML layout I have set up mainly 
> for signatures.
>
> What are yours? I can send you a screenshot od how this (or any 
> message displays for me) but the pic would be too large for the 
> discussion board to pass. Let me know if you’d like it and the 
> setting window (sans security info if any) to your email off message 
> board.
>
> Respectfully,
>
> Henry Seiden
> - -
> Techworks Pro Co.
> E: info<at>techworkspro<dot>com
> W: http://techworkspro.com
>
> On 25 Nov 2025, at 15:18, Stephan Kleiber via mailmate wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> please see the attached screenshot for an example of what happens 
>> when I compose an email in MailMate and write down some dates line by 
>> line. The preview at the bottom of the compose window shows that the 
>> HTML part of the message contains different dates than those I’ve 
>> typed in.
>>
>> What I think happens here is that MailMate parses the lines with 
>> dates as an ordered HTML list and just continues the numbering 
>> despite mine being not in increments of 1 (and despite, well, this 
>> not being a numbered list).
>>
>> This behavior completely screwed up the scheduling for some of my 
>> workshops because my clients would see different dates than me. 
>> Granted, it’s not equally dangerous everywhere, depending on how 
>> dates are written in different languages (the example in my 
>> screenshot is German, obviously). Anyway, I don’t think MailMate 
>> should be allowed to do this.
>>
>> I’m running MailMate 2.0 (6290) on macOS 26.1.
>>
>> Cheers
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