On Wednesday, 17 October 2018 at 17:52, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 7:38 AM Anderson, Charles R <cra@xxxxxxx> wrote: [...] > > It is > > also required to send semantically similar contents in both the > > text/plain and text/html parts, so that the text/plain part can act as > > a real human-readable alternative in the multipart/alternative message > > (i.e. it shouldn't set the text/plain part to be something like "Your > > email client doesn't support HTML. Please open this message in an > > HTML-capable client.") > > > > In my experience so far with the 3 messages I've received from > > Discourse in mailing-list mode, it doesn't send raw HTML in the > > text/plain attachment. It sends something that looks like BBcode: > > Well, which is it? Rathann says html, you say bbcode? I didn't say it was HTML, I only said it was mangled, but Charles is right, it looks like BBcode, which doesn't really work in text mode. The standard for quoting is prefixing each line of quoted text with "> ". Highlighting that is implemented by default in mutt. > Regardless, as I mentioned above, if they have a bug, then it should > be reported for them to address. I wouldn't call it a bug, just bad UX for a minority(?) target audience. > Mailing list mode has been out for several years now - seems to me if > this were a pervasive issue with a published standardize solution, > they should take care of it. I suspect the kind of people that would be bothered by Discourse's mailing list mode deficiencies simply stop using it as soon as they find out how bad it is for them. I don't blame them. > Again, I use gmail and things look perfectly fine for me. That's why. Try mutt or another text-based client and you'll see the difference. And personally, I recommend against Gmail because it's known to accept and silently drop some e-mail, which is against RFC5321 section 6.1.-6.2. Regards, -- Fedora https://getfedora.org | RPMFusion http://rpmfusion.org There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. -- from "Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
