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

[Martin S Taylor]

On 26 Feb 2026, at 17:37, Charlie Clark wrote:

> On 26 Feb 2026, at 12:11, Martin S Taylor wrote:
>
> I certainly don’t. Can you point to somewhere which explains it?
>
> There used to be elegant discussions of the subject but they now seem 
> to be swamped by the marketeers' guff. The European Commission has 
> something to say on the subject, ironically it's in the form of a PDF.
>
> E-mail should always be plain text, because that was how it was 
> developed and how many of the conventions that we've grown used to in 
> text communication, such as asterisks for **emphasis** or underlines 
> for __highlighting__ and even emojis, were developed. Add to these 
> replying below, selecting text to quote and threading. All great ideas 
> that have, more or less, had to be reinvented in everything that has 
> tried to replace e-mail.

Yes, I understand (and agree with) all of that. But we are where we are, 
and I receive emails in every kind of format, and I like to quote bits 
of them when I reply. What I don’t understand is how to format the 
quoted bits. It would help if I understood Mailmate’s options such as 
“Prefer plain text” and Theme for plain text emails is Apple Mail 
(or whatever).

> And the whole thing about Courier as **the** typeface for plain text 
> is absolute nonsense.

Agreed. I should have the choice what font to display text in. When I 
display a message I’m composing (in Mailmate) and I’m working in 
split pane (so that text appears on the left as plain text and on the 
right as formatted in some way) is there a way of changing the font that 
text on the right-hand side appears in? I see it always in Helvetica, 
and it would be nice to have a choice.

Martin
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