Re: [VM] VM sending something other than text/plain?

[Tim Cross]

It does sound a little odd, but I have had similar issues when it
comes to cutting and pasting, but not with mail. In my case, the issue
was due to cutting and pasting from another emacs buffer where emacs
was including the text properties in the paste. However, for this to
occur outside of emacs, the emacs text properties (which include the
font-locking info) would need to be translated into something which
another program (ie. in your case, your receiver's web client) can
understand. The only things I can think of which *might* cause this
are packages such as htmlize, which can convert font-lock information
into html representations of the text. I think there may also be a
package which does similar, but for rich text. Alternatively, maybe
your cut and paste is including ANSI escape characters which bash is
using and these are being interpreted by gmail.

Perhaps the first thing to do would be to send a test message to the
list which is constructed in the same way the one you describe was
i.e. with cut and paste from a bash shell. We can then look at the
content and MIME information to see what might be triggering gmail to
render text in different colours.

Tim


On 1 December 2011 06:59, Terry Jones <address@hidden> wrote:
> Today I had a weird experience. Someone Cc'd on an email I sent with VM
> (8.2.0a) replied to me with a screenshot of the mail as he saw it in Gmail.
> Some parts of the mail body had purple text, some black.  I'd composed the
> mail after pasting text in from a bash window. You could see where I'd
> typed new text.
>
> It seems like VM must be sending that extra information. I've been using VM
> for donkey's years and have never had anyone tell me my mails looked weird.
> I've not changed my VM setup in months.  I tried sending the same person an
> email containing several paragraphs, one of them pasted from bash, and he
> could tell me which paragraph it was.
>
> I don't see anything obvious to explain why this is happening (assuming it
> *is* happening). I have vm-send-using-mime set to t, but its documentation
> doesn't say anything about this. I've looked at the FCC log I keep of all
> outgoing mail, and it just has a regular text/plain mail in it.
>
> Can anyone shed any light on this?  I find it completely bizarre! So
> bizarre that I can't quite believe it.
>
> Thanks,
> Terry
>



-- 
Tim Cross