> Am 16.05.2025 um 08:42 schrieb Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mott...@libero.it>: > > Hi Patrick, > > Patrick Cardona wrote: >> >> How do you manage to read those messages with an HTML body? >> Do you use any service either a script to show this content? > > HTML support in GNUMail is limited. Viewing is delegated to AppKit and there > is anyway no composing. > > On Mac thus it does display HTML emails. How it does work I (we?) don't > really know. Apple might have written a mini-renderer, maybe it bridges to > WebKit, maybe it does both, I don't know. Well, https://webkit.org/ says: WebKit is the web browser engine used by Safari, Mail, App Store, and many other apps > > This functionality is not implemented in GNUstep, so GNUMail will either try > to display the Plain Text version of the message (you can send a message with > both versions) or if only HTML is present, it will try to display it by > converting it to text. > > The converter is quite crude, but should extract text and remove tags. It > even tries to preserve some formatting, but does not respect style sheets, so > with most modern mails you will get just text. > A "missing feature" or "bug" is that sometimes it drops images, even if > in-line images are supported. Never investigated. > Sometimes I have noticed just a blank mail. I suppose that's a bug too, but > don't have at hand a case to investigate it either. Is this using SimpleWebKit or has GNUMail its own html -> display converter?
