[ale] Odd WTF question

[Drifter]

I assure you I am NOT intentionally sending HTML mail.  I hate to see it 
coming at me and I would never send any out.

Looking at my KMail settings/configuration settings, about the only place I 
can see where it might make a difference is "Message Property."  There I 
have the two choices:
MIME compliant (Quoted Printable);
Allow 8-bit.

I am sending this message out with the section option.

Sean

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On Sunday, August 14, 2011 07:30:51 pm James Sumners wrote:
> I'll answer my own question. You are sending HTML mail. You blank
> lines are actually:
> 
> HTML encoded version:
> <p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px;
> margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;
> -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
> -qt-user-state:0;"></p>
> 
> Just copied and pasted version:
> <p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px;
> margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0;
> text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"></p>
> 
> Any sane HTML renderer is going to render that as effectively not even
> being present. Thus, you have "run together" paragraphs in your wife's
> email client.
> 
> My recommendation? Stop sending HTML mail. It's hated for good reason.
> 
> On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 19:24, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > 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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> > 
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