[MlMt] Mailmate-sent emails not creating satisfying paragraph spacing in other emailers
Randall Gellens
mailmate at randy.pensive.org
Fri Feb 27 08:12:08 EST 2026
On 27 Feb 2026, at 5:05, Jeroen van der Ham-de Vos via mailmate wrote:
> On 26 Feb 2026, at 12:11, Jason Davies wrote:
>
>> Thanks everyone. As I suspected, it's an Outlook problem that I can't
>> save others from having to deal with (they of course would simply say
>> 'can't you use Outlook?' at which point I start counting the days
>> until I retire).
>>
>
> Specifically it is the Outlook “feature” of removing extra line
> breaks:
> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/outlook/message-body/line-breaks-are-removed-in-posts-made-in-plain-text
That implies that it only happens with plain text email (not HTML) and
that two or more successive blank lines are preserved, only single blank
lines are removed.
--Randall
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