On 10/10/2014 07:25 AM, Shannon Doane wrote: > > I've noticed that when I send an email through the mailing list that a lot of > formatting is stripped away. Particularly bothersome is lost line or > paragraph breaks. As an example, in an original email there may be a space > between paragraphs, but when the email gets delivered through mailman those > line breaks may be removed and there is no space between paragraphs at all. > Even worse line/paragraph breaks may be removed altogether and everything > runs on a continuous line with only word wrap occurring. > Any thoughts on why this happens?
There are two things involved here: Mailman's content filtering and your mail client. In the case of your post to the mailman-users list to which I'm replying, you will note that your original was just two lines, but my reply is better formatted. When you send a message, you compose it in Yahoo's "rich text" editor. When you send it, Yahoo sends it as a multipart/alternative message with text/plain and text/html alternative parts. The text/html part is HTML which renders (at least approximately depending on the recipient's mail client) like what you composed with all the formatting, fonts, etc intact. The text/plain part is Yahoo's translation of what you composed into plain text. Yahoo's web mail is particularly bad at this. Then, this list is configured to not send out HTML, so it selects the text/plain alternative to send to the members, and the result is Yahoo's bad plain text rendering of your composition. The answer is to compose your mail in plain text rather than rich text to begin with when posting to lists. Then you control what the plain text looks like. To do this, click the '<<' icon at the bottom rigjht of the composition window to 'Switch to Plain Text'. Then, you can type what you want to see; it will be sent as plain text, and Mailman will send it as received. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org