7th September 2016, 15:47
Hi,
Yes I saw all those articles and unfortunately I was also not able to solve the issue. The point is that Thunderbird and Evolution already know how to properly handle Outlook replies. I've debugged the reply mails composed by Kmail and found that each HTML paragraph has a top-margin and bottom-margin property set to 12px. That is the reason for the double spacing. When I set that property to 0px, the double spacing disappears and the mails are formatted correctly. A brute-force way of achieved this is:
1. enable external editor in Kmail and set it to Kate
2. in Kate search & replace all "top-margin: 12px" and "bottom-margin: 12px" with "top-margin: 0px" and "bottom-margin: 0px"
3. immediately upon closing Kate, the mail in the composer window of Kmail becomes correctly formatted
4. however, one cannot edit the mail in the composer window because another instance of kate opens
5. the only way of editing the mail is using the "Insert HTML" functionality of Kmail composer, but one has to insert the HTML tags etc. for formatting, so it's like composing HTML in a notepad.
For basic mailing, it's not a problem, but for more complex formatting, not to mention tables, it's quite cumbersome. I will try to report this back to Kmail developers as well, maybe they can do something with it...
Yes I saw all those articles and unfortunately I was also not able to solve the issue. The point is that Thunderbird and Evolution already know how to properly handle Outlook replies. I've debugged the reply mails composed by Kmail and found that each HTML paragraph has a top-margin and bottom-margin property set to 12px. That is the reason for the double spacing. When I set that property to 0px, the double spacing disappears and the mails are formatted correctly. A brute-force way of achieved this is:
1. enable external editor in Kmail and set it to Kate
2. in Kate search & replace all "top-margin: 12px" and "bottom-margin: 12px" with "top-margin: 0px" and "bottom-margin: 0px"
3. immediately upon closing Kate, the mail in the composer window of Kmail becomes correctly formatted
4. however, one cannot edit the mail in the composer window because another instance of kate opens
5. the only way of editing the mail is using the "Insert HTML" functionality of Kmail composer, but one has to insert the HTML tags etc. for formatting, so it's like composing HTML in a notepad.
For basic mailing, it's not a problem, but for more complex formatting, not to mention tables, it's quite cumbersome. I will try to report this back to Kmail developers as well, maybe they can do something with it...