Hi,

I'm using KMail (as well as the Kontact suite) as my email client of choice. Just love it. However I've just noticed that KMail screws up the paragraphs of emails I've composed but only when said emails composed by myself are viewed outside KMail, i.e. on the GMail webapp.

As an example, if I compose an email on KMail, send it off and then view it on KMail, the email is displayed formatted as I'd composed it. No problems there. But if I view the same sent email online on GMail.com, the paragraphs disappear -- picture this forum post without the empty lines separating each paragraph, as a big block of text.

I believe this may be related to the UNIX line termination style vs Windows' but obviously I'm just not sure. If it is the CR/LF issue messing it up, is it possible to setup KMail accordingly? After all, this is largely a Windoze world...

Lastly it may be worth mentioning I've tried sending emails with and without HTML formatting but still the result is very much the same -- somehow GMail picks up the plain text part only.

Have you tried installing Thunderbird and viewing the same messages there? I will be very surprised if they are not the same as you see in KMail, and if that is so, it points to GMail's non-standard interface as causing the problem. Even if it's possible to do something within KMail (you could always use a double Enter) remember that if GMail is the only one that renders it like that you may annoy your readers.

Thanks Anne, really seems like it's GMail not following standards though it'd be nice to have an option in KMail to allow for CR characters to be added along with LF.

Thanks again.

I mostly work directly in KMail, but I do have a GMail account, and use it quite a lot. I route most of my mailing list messages through my gmail account, although I both read and write in KMail. I've never seen the problem that you mention - I just checked my gmail account for a message from me, just to make sure

I'm just wondering whether this is an issue around gmail's IMAP service. Is that what you use? I've seen a few other comments about oddities with their IMAP. I use forwarding, instead of IMAP, largely because I set it up before they offered IMAP, and it has worked well for me.

Hmm interesting... You're spot on, I'm using IMAP. Will give forwarding a try though. Thanks again!