At first glance, it looks as though your
"newline"s are not being
recognized as such.
That would be accurate. I went so far as putting in two blank lines to see
if only one was being discarded for some reason.
Were you using any other formatting, in addition
to newline?
No. It is a simple text reply.
The copy of your first 5155 post that I get from
the list has no
newlines.
So, whatever software you are using on your phone seems to be sending
sonething for newline, that the list server isn't recognizing.
Yes. I am using the stock Samsung email program that comes preinstalled on
their phones. It seems to be only the list server that fails. i.e. sending
email to other people on different system/servers/providers using a variety
of email readers on multiple OSes works fine. Only when I reply to the list
does this issue occur.
As far as I know, it goes something like this:
When sending, most email clients, likely including this Samsung thing,
create emails in two sections. One section is formatted using HTML
(to accomodate the dancing kangaroos and yodelling jellyfish which Fred
occasionally refers to) and the other is formatted in plain text. This is
supposed to be the same content presented in two different ways in order that
the maximum number of diverse receipient email clients can cope with it.
When a typical email client receives an email containing content in two or
more different formats, the client is supposed to pick one of them and
display it to the user. It is supposed to pick the most "fully featured"
format it is capable of displaying and this is typically the HTML formatted
section.
The Samsung email client thing produces broken plain text formatted sections
in its outgoing emails. Most recipients don't notice the problem because
their email client picks the HTML section and presents this to them instead
and this looks ok.
The mailing list server strips out the HTML sections of emails posted to
the list (because we don't want no dancing kangaroos nor yodelling jellyfish
here) and sends only the malformatted by Samsung text sections to the mailing
list recipients. The receiving email client has to display the malformatted
text because there is no alternative.
So, the problem is that the sending email client is faulty and likely hasn't
been tested sending emails to text only capable email clients. Complain
to the provider!
Regards,
Peter Coghlan.
