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Today's Topics:
1. Re: forwarding HTML emails (Robert Brenstein)
2. Re: forwarding HTML emails (Verdon Vaillancourt)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 15:25:14 +0100
From: "Robert Brenstein" <[email protected]>
To: "MailMate Users" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [MlMt] forwarding HTML emails
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I have been using MM for one year only but I haven’t seen any real
issues with forwarding HTML mails. If I forward the whole mail, and I
do
it almost daily, it seem to be quoted intact. I can see that using
the
preview in composer (composer itself displays only the text).
Occasionally, a forwarded email will become an attachment but I
suspect
that has to do with how that email was formatted or rather embedded
on
the way to me. If I select a subset of HTML-formatted email to
forward,
MM strips the original HTML code and replaces with simple color-coded
quoting layers. It is not always optimal but I understand that it is
virtually impossible to correctly carry on a subset of an
HTML/CSS-formatted email, considering how widely different and not
always correct those are set up. I can turn on markdown mode and bold
or
italic some texts as needed.
Since you are such a long-time user, I wonder whether you do not have
some settings set that affect the way your instance of MM operates.
May
be you should carefully review your config file (I use Prefs Editor
app
for easy viewing).
Robert
On 17 Jan 2018, at 21:21, Tracy Valleau wrote:
This is fundamentally problematic because "just forward them" does
not
have a well-defined technical meaning other than embedding the
full
original message as an attachment.
I was simplifying to express my request clearly.
HTML email is a few headers and HTML content. It is not any more
complex than a web page, basically.
The issue is that when forwarding, MM strips out all the HTML code.
Try viewing the source of an HTML email and you'll see what I mean.
My point is that the original source is IN the email, else I'd not
see
it all prettified, eh? So it's there.
Why not "just" forward ALL that original source? The head, the
tables,
the divs, the body... That way the recipient would see what I see.
I can understand not doing it for "political" reasons ("all email
should be text"). What I don't understand is why it isn't an option.
Mail can do it; Outlook can do it; Thunderbird can do it; PostBox
can
do it...
As a programmer with over 40 years of experience, I -can- understand
boxing one's self in to a point at which integrating the capability
is
a huge amount of work. That would be a legitimate reason for not
offering it (albeit unfortunate.)
But from a USER perspective, not being able to "just forward" HTML
email is odd, and from a recipient's standpoint... well in my 4
decades, I've -never- received an email that said "to see the html
version, click on the attachment."
Best wishes,
Tracy
www.valleau.art
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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 09:33:36 -0500
From: "Verdon Vaillancourt" <[email protected]>
To: "MailMate Users" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [MlMt] forwarding HTML emails
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Thanks for that tip!
On 18 Jan 2018, at 9:25, Robert Brenstein wrote:
(I use Prefs Editor app for easy viewing).
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