Hi all,


When I send a message within KMail to someone who read that message in the GMail web interface then the whole formatting is totally different than in KMail. For example spaces between lines are gone as well as character sizes are different. I guess this has something to do with the character codings, it was set for Western ASCII (or something). I've tried a few others like UTF-8, but it doesn't have any affect. Does someone have the clue for this mystery?

To clear the question a bit more up (because it doesn't seem so)

When I send this message in KMail:
"Hello,

My name is Kees.

Good bye!

Kind regards,
Kees"

Then is looks like this in GMail:
"Hello,
My name is Kees.
Good bye!
Kind regards,
Kees"

My question is; how do I keep the format constant? Does anyone else have this problem?

Let's put it differently
Who doesn't have this problem? If you haven't then I would appreciate a screenshot of your composing settings

Moved to Office & Productivity as KMail related topics belong there.

There are many things about GMail that are non-standard. I would guess that GMail is trying to be helpful by removing what it believes to be extraneous content. I've seen many mailing list threads about GMail formatting, and the general response seems to be that you can't do much about it. What I haven't seen is any comment about whether spacing from other mail clients is similarly treated. Do Thunderbird messages fare any better?

Are you sending html or simple text emails?

Damnshock wrote:Are you sending html or simple text emails?

Yes it's sent as html

Thanks everyone for your response, greatly appreciated!

Keessince1988 wrote:

Damnshock wrote:Are you sending html or simple text emails?

Yes it's sent as html

Then maybe it's a bug...

Can you check the source code of the emails from kmail (sent) and gmail (received)?

Regards

Damnshock wrote:

Keessince1988 wrote:

Damnshock wrote:Are you sending html or simple text emails?

Yes it's sent as html

Then maybe it's a bug...

Can you check the source code of the emails from kmail (sent) and gmail (received)?

Regards

I've tested the mails in KMail (Sent) and GMail (Received), in KMail it still looks like I typed it, but in GMail the format is again without HTML formatting.

I also sent the mail to two of my friends, one of them uses Outlook, the other Thunderbird. They both also received the mail without HTML formatting. I've looked everywhere for the right setting, but I can't find it (maybe it isn't there?).


Is there someone that uses KMail and doesn't have this problem?

My version is: 1.13.5 on Debian Testing

Keessince1988 wrote:I've tested the mails in KMail (Sent) and GMail (Received), in KMail it still looks like I typed it, but in GMail the format is again without HTML formatting.

I also sent the mail to two of my friends, one of them uses Outlook, the other Thunderbird. They both also received the mail without HTML formatting. I've looked everywhere for the right setting, but I can't find it (maybe it isn't there?).


Is there someone that uses KMail and doesn't have this problem?

My version is: 1.13.5 on Debian Testing

I tried it myself using KMail 1.13.5 (Kubuntu 10.10). I have no idea how to configure it to use the HTML format, so I just sent mail with "Prefer HTML to plain text" option enabled. (I usually have it turned off as I loathe HTML mail.) The received message did not lose any of its formatting when viewed on a browser.

daihard wrote:

Keessince1988 wrote:I've tested the mails in KMail (Sent) and GMail (Received), in KMail it still looks like I typed it, but in GMail the format is again without HTML formatting.

I also sent the mail to two of my friends, one of them uses Outlook, the other Thunderbird. They both also received the mail without HTML formatting. I've looked everywhere for the right setting, but I can't find it (maybe it isn't there?).


Is there someone that uses KMail and doesn't have this problem?

My version is: 1.13.5 on Debian Testing

I tried it myself using KMail 1.13.5 (Kubuntu 10.10). I have no idea how to configure it to use the HTML format, so I just sent mail with "Prefer HTML to plain text" option enabled. (I usually have it turned off as I loathe HTML mail.) The received message did not lose any of its formatting when viewed on a browser.

Where did you enable that option? I only enabled it in Security --> Reading, and then enabled: "Prefer HTML to plain text". But that only applies to reading email. Where did you enabled that option for sending? I just can't find it

EDIT: Without HTML content the mail is send like it should, but I have a HTML signature in my emails. So that's why it always went wrong. But I do prefer HTML formatting, so the problem is still here

Keessince1988 wrote:Where did you enable that option? I only enabled it in Security --> Reading, and then enabled: "Prefer HTML to plain text". But that only applies to reading email. Where did you enabled that option for sending? I just can't find it

EDIT: Without HTML content the mail is send like it should, but I have a HTML signature in my emails. So that's why it always went wrong. But I do prefer HTML formatting, so the problem is still here

Like I said, I have no idea. I assumed there was a way to enable sending mail in HTML since you said you'd sent your mail in HTML format. How did you specify HTML in your sig? Did you use raw tags?

I always use text mail. I try to bottom-post wherever possible. Yes, I am old school.

daihard wrote:I always use text mail. I try to bottom-post wherever possible. Yes, I am old school.

It's not old school rather than the correct way of doing things. If you wanna send images and presentations or whatever just *attach* them. Email is thought,build, developed with text in mind.

Damnshock wrote:

daihard wrote:I always use text mail. I try to bottom-post wherever possible. Yes, I am old school.

It's not old school rather than the correct way of doing things. If you wanna send images and presentations or whatever just *attach* them. Email is thought,build, developed with text in mind.

Amen to that!

Regardless of how things are ought to be, KMail should support HTML flawless Every mail client can, and it's a basic functionality.

To answer your question; no, I don't use HTML tags. It's also not something that I would desire

I guess I'll have to do my first bug report then