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List:       mailman-users
Subject:    [Mailman-Users] Re: Highlighted text disappears
From:       Robert Heller <heller () deepsoft ! com>
Date:       2021-03-29 1:33:42
Message-ID: 20210329013342.5291B2231FE () sharky4 ! deepsoft ! com
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At Sun, 28 Mar 2021 19:43:30 -0400 Vako Nicolian <vako@varnitec.com> wrote:

> 
> Actually my settings are aligned with your suggestions and still when 
> they reply, even using HTML encoding, strips the highlights
> I wish I can attach the screen capture to this email, but your system 
> doesn't accept it.
> Is there anything else I can check, note that the initial message shows 
> all correctly, only when we reply, it strips the highlighting.

If the person replying is using a text only MUA and/or has turned off rich 
text E-Mail, that will also strip off the HTML.  Actually many people do that, 
so depending on "rich text" features is not really very reliable and not 
something you can always rely on.

> 
> Thanks,
> Vako
> 
> Mark Sapiro wrote on 3/28/2021 5:30 PM:
> > On 3/28/21 12:11 PM, Vako Nicolian wrote:
> >> I already know the answer that this has nothing to do with mailman, but
> >> I want your opinion:
> >
> > Actually, in this case, it has everything to do with Mailman.
> >
> >
> >> Any idea why if we use mailman, the highlight disappears? is it a
> >> settings issue?
> >> I am doing the same highlight here to see if it will work for this group.
> >
> > This list employs content filtering and among the options is Collapse
> > alternatives which is set to Yes.
> >
> > That means when you compose your "rich text" message in your MUA, and
> > the MUA creates a message with a text/html part for the rich text and a
> > text/plain alternative part, the list will discard the text/html part
> > and keep only the text/plain part which doesn't have all the rich text
> > formatting.
> >
> > You can adjust your list settings to not filter content at all or to
> > accept both text/plain and text/html MIME parts and to not Collapse
> > alternatives and not Convert html to plain text to avoid this, but the
> > HyperKitty archive will still display only the plain text and the raw
> > html will be stored as an attachment.
> >
> >
> 
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