Hi Eric, thank you very much. Now that I’m looking at the specification, I wish it had just been a MailMate bug. I had no idea the problem I’ve run into is intended behavior. I’m a big fan of Markdown in general, but this design choice is just terrible.
Both of your suggestions are much appreciated, though they both have their quirks: > - select "Plain text" instead of "Markdown" in the toolbar above the headers > in the composer pane. Yes, this works of course, but it also disables any other formatting that I might have used in my message. It’s not ideal, but maybe my best option so far since it’s a reasonable default that prevents the problem from happening. If I do need Markdown, I can manually enable it (and then have to remember to check the result). > - escape the period with a backslash, like so: Smart! Unfortunately, it’s something I have to remember to do. At least it’s a way to get the dates right in the HTML part as well. Cheers Stephan On 25 Nov 2025, at 23:37, Eric Sharakan wrote: > Hi, I'm not sure there's much Benny can do about this. For better or for > worse, this is how Markdown works. See > https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/#ordered-lists. > > I can see two options: > > - select "Plain text" instead of "Markdown" in the toolbar above the headers > in the composer pane. > - escape the period with a backslash, like so: > > unescaped: > > 11. December > 24. December > > escaped: > > 11\. December > 24\. December > > (select "View->Show Raw Message") to see how I did that. > > -Eric > > On 25 Nov 2025, at 15:18, Stephan Kleiber via mailmate wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> please see the attached screenshot for an example of what happens when I >> compose an email in MailMate and write down some dates line by line. The >> preview at the bottom of the compose window shows that the HTML part of the >> message contains different dates than those I’ve typed in. >> >> What I think happens here is that MailMate parses the lines with dates as an >> ordered HTML list and just continues the numbering despite mine being not in >> increments of 1 (and despite, well, this not being a numbered list). >> >> This behavior completely screwed up the scheduling for some of my workshops >> because my clients would see different dates than me. Granted, it’s not >> equally dangerous everywhere, depending on how dates are written in >> different languages (the example in my screenshot is German, obviously). >> Anyway, I don’t think MailMate should be allowed to do this. >> >> I’m running MailMate 2.0 (6290) on macOS 26.1. >> >> Cheers >> Stephan_______________________________________________ >> mailmate mailing list >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
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