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

[Jerry]

On Mon, 13 Aug 2018 12:44:42 +0200, Wilhelm Boltz stated:

>Am Mon, 13 Aug 2018 11:20:48 +0100
>schrieb Dave Howorth <dave at howorth.org.uk>:
>
>> 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
>> > [...]
>> > 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?  
>
>+1

MS Outlook has a "character limit" that can be set to achieve optimal line
length. This works fine for "text only" messages only.

Using Microsoft Outlook 16.0, I have composed and sent several messages of
various lengths in HTML format. They all display perfectly in claws-mail.

What settings are you using in claws-mail anyway? What version of Outlook are
we talking about here?

-- 
Jerry