Bug 229527

Summary:	Empty lines are deleted in HTML mode
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	Tomas <nicco.ts>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	mathias.v44, rado.kljucevsek, twelve.eighty
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
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Description Tomas 2010-03-05 12:21:21 UTC

Version:           Version 1.13.1 (using KDE 4.4.1)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    openSUSE RPMs

If I compose in HTML mode (bold font or color,...), then all empty lines (^$) are removed when e-mail is received in any other e-mail clients different than kmail.
The e-mail appears OK in Kmail's outbox and inbox (if I sent it to me), but empty lines aren't displayed in outlook or zimbra. 

Last fix for empty lines seems to be not fully operational.
TXT messages works fine.

Comment 1 Rado 2010-03-06 00:23:03 UTC

I can confirm this. The reasons are still the settings margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px in every paragraph of kmail produces. I am really interested who on earth put this in!

The last change was only to override these settings locally in kmail viewer but others see that as intended by these ridiculous settings. Does anybody know where these settings are stored and maybe how to change them on permanent base?

Everybody I know has these settings which make kmail's e-mails almost unreadable. Can anybody confirm other settings in his installation?

Comment 2 Tomas 2010-05-06 14:14:05 UTC

Please this bug is still there - Version 1.13.3 - Platform Version 4.4.3 (KDE 4.4.3) - kmail-4.4.3-210.5

Comment 3 Rado 2010-05-06 14:22:22 UTC

I am sorry to hear that. I have not upgraded to 4.4.3 yet.

Looks like we are the only alians bothered with this. Others do not care how their mails look out when they are received? KDE has only 5 users?

Comment 4 Tomas 2010-05-06 15:22:02 UTC

I think we are the only 2 persons which use Kmail in communication with Outlook/Zimbra clients.

I can imagine thousands of bugs like this one when we will finally start with replacement of Kmail's composer by Khtml or WebKit composer - bug86423

Comment 5 twelve.eighty 2011-02-21 03:21:46 UTC

Folks - this bug should be closed as it's a dupe of https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207779.

Comment 6 Laurent Montel 2015-04-12 10:10:32 UTC

Thank you for taking the time to file a bug report.

KMail2 was released in 2011, and the entire code base went through significant changes. We are currently in the process of porting to Qt5 and KF5. It is unlikely that these bugs are still valid in KMail2.

We welcome you to try out KMail 2 with the KDE 4.14 release and give your feedback.