[Mrpostman-developers] problem when sending html messages

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Hello,

I would like to allow html outgoing messages from outlook using 
mrpostman
and squirrelmail. I have discovered in java code that sending mails in 
html
format was not possible :

In GenericMailSession.java I had to transform the code of "sendMessage"
method to allow html outgoing messages as follows:

// this "if" was after the second "if" (with plain text)
if (parts.get("text/html") != null)
{
msg.put("mimetype", "text/html");
msg.put("text", (String) parts.get("text/html"));
}
//this "if" was before the first "if" (with html)
else if (parts.get("text/plain") != null)
{
msg.put("mimetype", "text/plain");
msg.put("text", (String) parts.get("text/plain"));
}
else
{
msg.put("mimetype", "text/plain");
msg.put("text", "");
}

Explanation :

When looking at GenericMailSession code :

public boolean sendMessage(List recipients, BufferedReader in, String
charset) {
        MessageParser mparser = null;
        try {
            mparser = new MessageParser(recipients, in, charset);
.../...
Map parts = mparser.getParts();

When printing
parts.get("text/html")
and
parts.get("text/plain")

I have seen that both were not null when sending an html mail 
(text/html is
null when sending a text/plain message), so that in the case of an html 
mail
only the text/plain part of the message was sent (because of the "if"
conditions order).

Then when inverting the code I have been able to send html messages but 
the
source html code of the message was transformed at the end :

& becomes &amp;
< becomes &lt;
> becomes &sup;
" becomes &quot;

so that the received message looks like html code but not like a html 
page

Example :

The body of the written message is as follows before sending it (in 
html
code) :

This is just a mail with a link <a href="http://www.google.fr/ ">to
google</a>

which appears like that :

This is just a mail with a link to google 

When receiving the message the body of the message is as 
follows (when looking at the source code you will see the problem)
:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0  Transitional//EN">  <HTML><HEAD><TITLE></TITLE>  <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; ?  charset=iso-8859-1">  <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2627"  name=GENERATOR></HEAD>  <BODY>This is just a mail with a link <A ?  href="http://www.google.fr/"  target="_blank">http://www.google.fr/">to  google</A></BODY></HTML>        

so that the mail is unreadable.

Do you know when and where the transformation happens, I can't find it 
in
the code.
HTMLEncoder.java deals with these transcoding but doesn't seem to be 
used
when sending a message.
Many thanks for answering,
Anne

Apologizes if the mail is not clear, the html code may not appear as I wrote it 

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