On 2024-02-13 20:59, Kirill Kranz via fpc-devel wrote:

Hi Kirill,

I have:

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I believe that you should create a bug report for this issue if you haven't done so yet.

Apart from that, I'd suggest configuring your e-mail client for sending a plain text version of your posts to the mailing list (at least in parallel to an HTML version, similarly to your other account from which you sent your original message which ended up in the moderation queue), because the HTML version appeared broken in at least some e-mail clients (I tried two and had issues in both of them, although different ones).

Tomas

His email looks good to me. Much easier to see code with formatting.

Who doesn't have email clients with HTML support these days? I can't imagine how old your system must be to not have this.

On Feb 15, 2024, at 4:10 PM, Tomas Hajny via fpc-devel wrote: Apart from that, I'd suggest configuring your e-mail client for sending a plain text version of your posts to the mailing list (at least in parallel to an HTML version, similarly to your other account from which you sent your original message which ended up in the moderation queue), because the HTML version appeared broken in at least some e-mail clients (I tried two and had issues in both of them, although different ones).

Regards,
Ryan Joseph

Hairy Pixels wrote

His email looks good to me. Much easier to see code with formatting. Who doesn't have email clients with HTML support these days? I can't imagine how old your system must be to not have this.

I don't have HTML support in my mail program. My mail program is text based.

HTML in mail is for 99.99% of cases a waste of bandwidth. I care about the content of a message, not about the markup.

Michael.

@Michael - thanks, I'm sure there are others, possibly having HTML support but still preferring plain text e-mails for various reasons.

Since I triggered this discussion, I'd like to stop it before it evolves to a lengthy discussion about something which is not on topic on this list - if somebody feels a necessity to continue, fpc-other is the right place. Anyway - the particular message of the original poster was broken, possibly as a result of the mailing list processor adding the usual footer to it (I cannot check the culprit easily and I don't intend to try doing it) resulting in issues even with rather up to date e-mail clients supporting HTML. In particular, there was an empty plain text section in the e-mail containing just the footer. When responding to it with a very up to date mobile e-mail client (obviously supporting HTML e-mails), the original message was not quoted, because the client preferred the plain text version (which is a very reasonable default, especially on a mobile device). When displaying the message in another client (open-source webmailer, obviously also supporting HTML e-mails), parts of the message were displayed mixed with the footer.

As a moderator of this list, I _recommend_ everybody to use plain-text e-mails, or at least to configure the e-mail client to send both plain-text and HTML version of the outgoing messages. It isn't a strict requirement, but please understand that doing otherwise may result in issues.

Thanks

Tomas
(one of FPC mailing list moderators)

which one are you using? I didn't know these even existed. Not on , Ryan Joseph