Re: [Re-alpine-devel] Re-alpine and the new GMX

[Joshua M. <un...@gm...>]

Hi Tim,

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Tim Kröger <Tim...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi Nicolas,
>
> On Wed, 17 Apr 2013, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > Are those other user agents sending plain text or HTML emails?
> >
> > I'd suspect that the webmail interface you're talking about is failing
> > when displaying plain text email content.  To confirm that, you may try
> > adding HTML markers in your email such as </p> or <br> at the end of a
> > paragraph to see if the displayed result gets better.
>
> Yes, adding a "<br>" at the end of each line fixes the problem.
> However, the webmail interface itself also offers the possibility to
> compose plain text emails, and *those* emails are displayed correctly.
> (And I have no experience with other user agents that send plain text
> emails.)
>
>
I did a quick test myself. FWIW to non-gmx users, gmx is a free email
service. So, I created an account and tried it out.
I sent email via alpine 2.02 (from ubuntu repo) to my new gmx account, and
it formatted correctly. I sent two ways:

1. S/MIME signed plain text
2. plain text with no sig or attachments

Both displayed correctly in the gmx webmail interface. This leads me to
believe there is something weird with either your alpine settings, your
mail transport agent, or your outbound mail server. Have you tried sending
through a different outbound mail server, perhaps using a different account
(ex. through google)? That could rule out an alpine-specific issue, or
confirm it.

I also tried sending from GMX to myself. It looks like a normal plain text
email. For those interested:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:32:43 -0400
From: "Joshua Miller" <un...@gm...>
Message-ID: <201...@gm...>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Subject: test to gmail from gmx
To: un...@gm...
X-Flags: 0001
X-Mailer: GMX.com Web Mailer
x-registered: 0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-GMX-UID: jJ0cccEj3zOlOKyaD30hSVN+IGRvb8BT

Hi there myself,

testing mail from gmx.
Going to gmail.

Stuff and things.
Thanks,
--
Josh I.


So, I'd suggesting testing sending through a different outbound email
provider to gmx, and then looking over your alpine config (maybe starting
from scratch).
Hope that helps,
--
Josh I.