Freron MailMate

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  benny July 8th, 2015 @ 09:15 AM

  • State changed from “new” to “accepted”

  Hmm, I think type="cite" is highly non-standard. Googling suggests that it's only really used by Thunderbird. Are you sure it has an effect on Apple Mail? Have you tried other email clients? iOS Mail?

  The “solution” to this problem (no good solutions exist, because HTML in emails is such a horribly broken concept) is that MailMate explicitly styles quoted blocks. This is likely to be possible fairly soon since it's part of a lot of changes I'm currently doing to be more flexible about the HTML generated by MailMate (primarily to allow inlining arbitrary HTML when forwarding/replying).

  I'll put this ticket in the “accepted” although it's probably kind of a duplicate. I'll update it when I think this problem has been solved.

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  Robert Black July 8th, 2015 @ 10:53 AM

  I can confirm that both Mail.app on the Mac and Mail on iOS require it (type="cite") to treat and format the text as an email quote instead of just a plain indent

  <blockquote type="cite">Quoted text</blockquote>
  

  The rationale and history for its use is explained here (and further down): bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183219#c15

  Removing the type=cite attribute of blockquote is an extremely bad idea. We absolutely need it - it is the only way to (properly and easily) differentiate between a normal mail quote and a generic quote (from Benjamin Franklin or CNET).

  Yes, it's not in the HTML standard. But HTML was not made for email. But neither does HTML disallow new attributes. This has been in use for almost a decade (since Netscape 4 or earlier) and is very well-known. It's a quasi-standard.