Johan Corveleyn wrote on Thu, 21 Sep 2017 15:54 +0200: > Op 20 sep. 2017 17:28 schreef "Pavel Lyalyakin" < > pavel.lyalya...@visualsvn.com>: > > Hello,
The line "Hello" was written by Pavel; Johan's MUA should have preceded it with a ">" but did not. Consequently, the reply is virtually unreadable in plain text mode: it makes no distinction between the quoted text (by Pavel) and the new text (by Johan). I gather — thanks to some excellent detective work by jcorvel — that this behaviour is a new (mis)feature of gmail, which kicks in when (1) composing in HTML mode, (2) while composing a reply, adding some response text inline (as opposed to top-posting). It affects even replies to text/plain emails (such as Pavel's post, the grandparent of this one). I'm not aware of a workaround, but given that this issue does make emails considerably harder to read in plain text MUAs --- and affects multiple posters on multiple lists --- I did feel it merited a post. And as people always ask in such situations: if somebody has a back channel to the gmail team, please do use it... Thanks, Daniel
