Hi there, On Thu, 5 May 2011 18:53:03 +0200 Michelle Konzack < linux4miche...@tamay-dogan.net> wrote: > Package: html2text > Serverity: wishlist > > Hello Maintainer, > > On the mutt mailinglist there is a short conversation about the Outlook > HTML problem which concern html4text too which lead to a double spacing > > Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening > Michelle Konzack > Systemadministrator > > > ----- Forwarded message from Aaron Toponce <aaron.topo...@gmail.com> ----- > > Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 22:07:41 -0600 > From: Aaron Toponce <aaron.topo...@gmail.com> > To: mutt-us...@mutt.org > Subject: Re: Dealing with Outlook 2007 HTML messages > User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) > > On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 06:42:12PM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: > > On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 02:07:37PM -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > > > Given Outlook 2007's penchant for using <p> tags instead of <br> tags > > > when a user hits enter (ref[1]), I'm curious how some of you deal with > > > this short of viewing only the text/plain portion of the email. > > > > > > I use w3m as my viewer and have tried passing the Outlook HTML through > > > "tidy" first. It cleans up the HTML a bit, but leave the <p> tags > > > intact resulting in unsightly and unnecessary double spacing > > > throughout. > > > > > > Anyone written an Outlook 2007 aware sanitizer that cleans things up? > > > Other ideas? > > > > > > [1] http://blog.egriffin.net/2008/05/eliminating-extra-line-spacing-in-ms.html > > > > I haven't been particularly bothered enough by it. In fact, I see it so > > rarely, I had to send a lorem ipsum mail to myself from my work account, > > just to see the problem. > > > > I'm probably like most, and pipe all my HTML mail through elinks, and it > > seems to do fine (minus the annoying mails from retailers who use images to > > convey their message, and horrible table-like formatting). It doesn't > > address your issue though. > > > > So, if a solution is found, and the hack is simple enough to implement, I'm > > interested. Please post your solution to the list if you find one. > > So, I've been bothered by this now, thanks to you, so I've been looking at > solutions. So far, I have ideas, but nothing implemented. I've also learned > why the extra line breaks exist. > > If you look at the HTML of the message sent from an Outlook 2007 client, > you'll notice the paragrphs are wrapped in tags like this: > > <p>Lorem ipsum<o:p></o:p></p> > > Notice the extra <o:p></o:p> tags in the middle of your paragraph tags. I > believe those are being handled as standard <p> tags, and thus giving you […]
Can you please provide a full message generated by Outlook 2007 where this problem manifests itself? Thanks, -- Marcos Marado
