On 2025-05-16 08:42:47 +0200 Riccardo Mottola
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Riccardo,
Thank you for the aknowledgement. I comment some tips in below...
Hi Patrick,
Patrick Cardona wrote:
How do you manage to read those messages with an HTML body?
Do you use any service either a script to show this content
HTML support in GNUMail is limited. Viewing is delegated to AppKit
and there
is anyway no composing.
On Mac thus it does display HTML emails. How it does work I (we?)
don't
really know. Apple might have written a mini-renderer, maybe it
bridges to
WebKit, maybe it does both, I don't know.
This functionality is not implemented in GNUstep, so GNUMail will
either try
to display the Plain Text version of the message (you can send a
message with
both versions) or if only HTML is present, it will try to display it
by
converting it to text.
This is working for a wide part of the messages I receive.
The converter is quite crude, but should extract text and remove
tags. It
even tries to preserve some formatting, but does not respect style
sheets, so
with most modern mails you will get just text.
But, sometimes, the CSS part is first shown on the top of the message.
I think this should ever be hidden.
A "missing feature" or "bug" is that sometimes it drops images, even
if
in-line images are supported. Never investigated.
Sometimes I have noticed just a blank mail. I suppose that's a bug
too, but
don't have at hand a case to investigate it either.
I could see these kinds of blank messages too. Fortunately, not very
common.
Riccardo
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Patrick Cardona
Pi400 - Desktop: NEXTSPACE - OS: Debian 12.10 - arm64
