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

[Stephan Kleiber]

Hi Eric,

thank you very much. Now that I’m looking at the specification, I wish it had just been a MailMate bug. I had no idea the problem I’ve run into is intended behavior. I’m a big fan of Markdown in general, but this design choice is just terrible.

Both of your suggestions are much appreciated, though they both have their quirks:

> - select "Plain text" instead of "Markdown" in the toolbar above the headers in the composer pane.

Yes, this works of course, but it also disables any other formatting that I might have used in my message. It’s not ideal, but maybe my best option so far since it’s a reasonable default that prevents the problem from happening. If I do need Markdown, I can manually enable it (and then have to remember to check the result).

> - escape the period with a backslash, like so:

Smart! Unfortunately, it’s something I have to remember to do. At least it’s a way to get the dates right in the HTML part as well.

Cheers
Stephan


On 25 Nov 2025, at 23:37, Eric Sharakan wrote:

> Hi, I'm not sure there's much Benny can do about this.  For better or for worse, this is how Markdown works.  See https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/#ordered-lists.
>
> I can see two options:
>
> - select "Plain text" instead of "Markdown" in the toolbar above the headers in the composer pane.
> - escape the period with a backslash, like so:
>
> unescaped:
>
> 11. December
> 24. December
>
> escaped:
>
> 11\. December
> 24\. December
>
> (select "View->Show Raw Message") to see how I did that.
>
> -Eric
>
> 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
>> Stephan_______________________________________________
>> mailmate mailing list
>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.freron.com/pipermail/mailmate/attachments/20251126/532ff117/attachment.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 260 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
URL: <http://lists.freron.com/pipermail/mailmate/attachments/20251126/532ff117/attachment.sig>