[MlMt] Mailmate-sent emails not creating satisfying paragraph spacing in other emailers

[Bill Cole]

On 2026-02-25 at 11:58:02 UTC-0500 (Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:58:02 +0000)
Jason Davies <mailmate at lists.freron.com>
is rumored to have said:

> Dear list,
>
> This is going to be hard to describe because it is all about how 
> Mailmate renders text (I think)...
>
> When I create a new paragraph in a Mailmate email I hit return twice. 
> I see a clear line between the paragraphs and it looks fine. This is 
> using Markdown, not plain text.
>
> When people reply to me, their messages look fine too with healthy 
> paragraph spacing but my text below theirs (taken from my original 
> email) no longer has the extra white space. There are no gaps between 
> the paragraphs which makes it look very crowded. They are using 
> Outlook 99% of the time.

It has been over a decade since I used the Outlook+Exchange abomination 
but I can still envision the little brag/warn at the top of a 
well-spaced text email asserting that "extra" whitespace had been 
removed.

> I can't be absolutely sure what they are seeing but if they are seeing 
> it without paragraphs, that's just nasty and probably horrible for 
> anyone with visual issues or dyslexia. If I open these messages in 
> Outlook, the white space is missing there too so I think Outlook is 
> compressing the paragraphs somehow for all readers.

As it long has...

> Is there something I can do to ensure that the paragraphing has 
> persistent white space? Adding a third return key doesn't appear to do 
> anything to change this (I imagine this is typical md/html behaviour).
>
> Any ideas very welcome.

Lines with a space or tab on them? Maybe multiple spaces and tabs?

That's a PURE guess.


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