[Users] [Bug 4070] New: Outlook HTML e-mails are converted to text by claws upon replying - badly

[Dave Howorth]

On Mon, 13 Aug 2018 08:15:26 +0000
noreply at thewildbeast.co.uk wrote:

> https://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4070
> 
>             Bug ID: 4070
>            Summary: Outlook HTML e-mails are converted to text by
> claws upon replying - badly
>     Classification: Unclassified
>            Product: Claws Mail
>            Version: 3.16.0
>           Hardware: PC
>                 OS: Linux
>             Status: NEW
>           Severity: normal
>           Priority: P3
>          Component: UI/Message View
>           Assignee: users at lists.claws-mail.org
>           Reporter: arthur.huillet at free.fr
> 
> Created attachment 1900
>   -->  
> https://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=1900&action=edit
> HTML mail from Outlook
> 
> MS Outlooks likes to send HTML-only e-mails. Its HTML is a little
> strange and each line is in a <p> section. 
> This isn't handled well by Claws. When Claws displays HTML as text,
> but more importantly when it quotes an HTML e-mail in a reply, its
> conversion will add extra newlines, making the text harder to read:
> there will be an empty line between each line of the original e-mail.
> 
> I'm attaching an example HTML file generated by Outlook. This HTML
> file is rendered "incorrectly" (as described above) by Claws, Links,
> Lynx and W3M, but rendered correctly by Firefox. Attaching example
> outputs of Claws and Firefox to show the difference. This is
> particularly painful when Claws quotes an e-mail by prepending >.
> 
> The "fix" that I'm carrying locally is attached in a patch. It works
> for me but may not be the most correct solution.

Sorry, you're saying that MS Outlook sends email as broken HTML, that
claws and many other mailers deal with it correctly, and you suggest
that claws should now be deliberately broken to display what you regard
as a 'prettier' rendition of the broken mail that MS Outlook sent?

Shouldn't you instead be complaining to MS about them sending broken
emails and asking them to fix that?