Thank you for the suggestions. Working with Benny offline. I will be updating to MailMate 6243. Confess I do not update often. If things are working...
-Zak > Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2025 18:33:48 -0700 > From: Randall Gellens <mailm...@randy.pensive.org> > To: MailMate Users <mailmate@lists.freron.com> > Subject: Re: [MlMt] MailMate Reply to iPhone Mail Message > Message-ID: <fd3500bd-6f87-4c53-9b28-22b97798b...@randy.pensive.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; markup=markdown > > On 4 Apr 2025, at 6:28, Bill Cole wrote: > >> On 2025-04-04 at 08:48:50 UTC-0400 (Fri, 04 Apr 2025 08:48:50 -0400) >> Zak McClellan <mailmate@lists.freron.com> >> is rumored to have said: >> >>> This happens with messages received from iPhone Mail. >>> >>> When I attempt to reply, the body of the message is blank/empty. The >>> original message/thread is gone. Creating a message that appears to >>> be new and not a reply. >> >> Cannot reproduce as described... >> >>> I attempted to begin a draft on my phone using Mail and Preside >>> saving it to drafts. Returning to my computer using MailmMte I opened >>> the draft "Edit as New Message..." MailMate retrieved this message >>> without rendering the draft for editing: >>> >>> "Sorry, MailMate was unable to derive a plain text part when creating >>> this email." >> >> "Edit as New Message" is not a reply, it is (in this case) an attempt >> by MailMate to adopt a message saved as a draft by another program, >> which is unreliable at best. >> >>> The message appears as usual in the Inbox. It's the reply that goes >>> blank. >>> >>> Anyone else having this issue? Have a solution? >> >> The solution is to not expect any mail client to understand how other >> mail clients construct incomplete drafts. Mail.app in particular may >> create unusual MIME structures when replying to HTML mail which other >> clients may not be able to transform into their own idea of what a >> reply does to the original content. > > To follow on to what Bill wrote, rather than save the message on your > iPhone as a draft, try sending it to yourself, and then reply or edit as > new message in MailMate. > > --Randall _______________________________________________ mailmate mailing list Unsubscribe: https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
