From 57150a47f3adb3a4c422e881659c7f4920e15efe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: djcb Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2019 22:28:25 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] mu4e: update doc with outlook note Thanks to Ken Mankoff. --- mu4e/mu4e.texi | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) diff --git a/mu4e/mu4e.texi b/mu4e/mu4e.texi index a5002d72..d7f9efc3 100644 --- a/mu4e/mu4e.texi +++ b/mu4e/mu4e.texi @@ -4081,6 +4081,24 @@ User Marcin Borkowski has a solution: (advice-add 'mml-attach-file :around #'mml-attach-file--go-to-eob) @end lisp + +@item @emph{How can I avoid Outlook display issues?} + +Limited testing shows that certain Outlook clients do not work well +with inline replies, and the entire message including-and-below the +first quoted section is collapsed. This means recipients may not even +notice important inline text, especially if there is some top-posted +content. This has been observed on OS X, Windows, and Web-based +Outlook clients accessing Office 365. + +It appears the bug is triggered by the standard reply regex "On ... +wrote:". Changing "On", or removing the trailing ":" appears to fix +the bug (in limited testing). Therefore, a simple work-around is to +set `message-citation-line-format` to something slightly non-standard, +such as: +@lisp +(setq message-citation-line-format "On %Y-%m-%d at %R %Z, %f wrote...") +@end lisp @end enumerate @node Known issues