I recently ran into a similar issue with unintended markdown syntax in
MailMate. Fortunately, I tend to use the preview window (CMD-CTRL-OPT-P)
to check my markdown, so I caught the problem before hitting send.
The solution/workaround for me was to use a non-breaking space
(OPT-space). This is a handy trick whenever you want a blank space after
or between characters that should receive no formatting magic. As the
name implies, a non-breaking-space will not permit line breaks. MailMate
ignores non-breaking space for markdown, so it won’t create lists, nor
will it swallow up multiple non-breaking spaces into a single space. You
can force some basic plain-text formatting that is otherwise be
frustrating to achieve.
To use a number followed by a period without creating a numbered list,
use the sequence: digit | period | non-breaking-space:
1. January
15. March
4. July
Likewise, a non-breaking-space after an asterisk disables un-numbered
lists:
* bullet
Replacing non-breaking spaces with regular spaces, these become:
1. January
15. March
4. July
* bullet
If you need simple indented text without a formatted list, you can pad
the start of a line with non-breaking-spaces:
indented
double-indented
The markdown alternative is to open a line with four spaces, which may
less appropriate for some situations:
monospaced text
with indenting
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.
Glenn P. Parker
[email protected]
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