On 2019-10-29, <[email protected]> (Nuno Silva) <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On 2019-10-29, John Long wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:50:05 -0400
>> Patrick Shanahan <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> * Grant Edwards <[email protected]> [10-29-19 13:10]:
> [...]
>>> > Muttdown (a "sendmail" filter) which creates mutlipart alternative
>>> > html/text messages is the only reason I've been able to continue to
>>> > use mutt for the past 5-6 years. About 90% of the people to whom I
>>> > send email can't deal with plaintext only. The display of plaintext
>>> > is butchered horribly by Outlook,
>>
>> This is sadly, absolutely true. It's beyond frustrating to format an
>> email carefully in ASCII text and then have it look like a telegram
>> from Charles Manson by the time Outlook is done with it.
> [...]
>
> What about composing html in the text editor and changing the
> content-type to text/html with ^T in mutt?
The only what that's practical is to put everything inside <pre></pre>
with some embedded CSS to pick a fixed font. In theory that could
work.
Muttdown is far, far simpler and produces very nice looking results.
It allows multi-level quoting, lists, code blocks, and so on.
The key is to bind a button/command in your editor to a 'preview'
command that runs the buffer through muttdown and shows the result in
a browser. That gives you a pretty good idea what the recipient will
see.
> It might be inconvenient for more complex messages, but could perhaps
> help in these cases where you're sending something that would otherwise
> go as plain text to Outlook users.
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