[ale] Odd WTF question

James Sumners james.sumners at gmail.com
Sun Aug 14 19:24:48 EDT 2011


Are you sure her email client is in plain text mode and not rich text/HTML mode?

On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 18:54, Drifter <drifter at oppositelock.org> wrote:
> Recently wrote a longish letter to the president of my Condo Assoc. and
>
> copied my wife, who uses a Mac.
>
> As in this note, I placed an extra <Return> at the end of each paragraph.
>
> But when the email appeared on her Mac screen, those extra LFs had been
> stripped out. The paragraphs appeared to have been run together and the only
> clue about the beginning of a new paragraph was the remaining CR at the end
> of the last line.
>
> When I hit the <Enter> key on this keyboard, I am assuming it sends both CR
> and LF and another tap on the <Enter> key sends the second LF. Am I wrong in
> that assumption? Is the Mac stripping out the extra LFs? or is something
> else between the KMail editor and my ISP responsible?
>
> For the record, I use KMail for all routine emails.
>
> Sean
>
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