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HTML emails look different for sender
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Formatting is somewhat "bilnd" which makes it a bit difficult to "trust" the outcome and makes the editing part not looking very nice.
Describe the solution you'd like
To be able to see the format of the sent mail directly when editing, in a WYSIWYG mode.
Describe alternatives you've considered
No response
Additional context
No response
Yes, I know that. But we don't really see what we get, for example:
Fonts are smaller, margins different and the quote line does not appear....(Never noticed that before...Maybe it has to do with the fact that I have a white theme?)
Right. As far as I understand this has to do with how the HTML is rendered on the receiving end. Like a HTML list <li> may be indented or not. We do not specify any styling, so there is a lot of freedom for the email clients.
Now, I wonder how other email clients handle this. Do Thunderbird, Gmail & others send stricter styling for their HTML messages, so they look more consistent with what the sender sees? That needs some research.
Thank you for reopening! Here's what happens in a fresh installation of Thunderbird:
There is actually not a real difference in font size, that's due to the different size of the screenshot....they both look quite similar.
Oh sorry.....here's the relevant part from the source:
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="------------lpCrO0gv84GwhoGWiXbt2R5h"
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 14:45:37 +0200
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101
Thunderbird/91.10.0
Content-Language: en-US
To: <[email protected]>
From: xxxx <[email protected]>
Subject: test
MIME-Version: 1.0
--------------lpCrO0gv84GwhoGWiXbt2R5h
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Dear Test,
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, /consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod
tempor/ incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.
* Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris
nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.
* Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse
cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur.
Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui
officia *deserunt mollit anim id est laborum*.
--------------lpCrO0gv84GwhoGWiXbt2R5h
Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
<html><head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body>
<p>Dear Test,</p>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, <i>consectetur adipiscing elit, sed
do eiusmod tempor</i> incididunt ut labore et dolore magna
aliqua.</p>
<ul>
<li> Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco
laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.</li>
<li>Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse
cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur.</li>
</ul>
Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui
officia <b>deserunt mollit anim id est laborum</b>.
</body>
</html>
--------------lpCrO0gv84GwhoGWiXbt2R5h--