[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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