Mail strips leading leading whitespace. How to disable?

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Using Mail 4.5 (1084), I notice when sending plaintext messages, Mail will strip whitespace.  For example:   ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a list here: - Item one   - sub item a   - sub item b - Item two is a long sentence and has a newline   followed by two spaces to line up properly. ----------------------------------------------------------------------  When I send my message, the whitespace is stripped to be:  ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a list here: - Item one  - sub item a  - sub item b - Item two is a long sentence and has a newline  followed by two spaces to line up properly. ----------------------------------------------------------------------   Is there any way to disable the whitespace stripping?  One reason why I use plain text and fixed-with font is to line up characters.

jason.rothfuss · Answer

Apparently I need to use HTML editor:Using Mail 4.5 (1084), I notice when sending plaintext messages, Mail will strip whitespace.  For example:   ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a list here: - Item one     - sub item a     - sub item b - Item two is a long sentence and has a newline  followed by two spaces to line up properly. ----------------------------------------------------------------------  When I send my message, the whitespace is stripped to be:  ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a list here: - Item one   - sub item a   - sub item b - Item two is a long sentence and has a newline followed by two spaces to line up properly. ----------------------------------------------------------------------   Is there any way to disable the whitespace stripping?  One reason why I use plain text and fixed-with font is to line up characters.

|oo| · Answer

This is still an issue with Apple Mail Version 6.0 (1486).mail shows:// |/ || //--/| /||_/ ...raw source:         _ &#x3D;20   // |/ || /&#x3D;20  /--/| /||_/ ...           &#x3D;20If I&#x27;m working with a plain-text email I don&#x27;t want any "helpful" whitespace modifications along the way 😉

|oo| · Answer

Apparently discussions.apple.com uses the same engine :/So it appears that a single space at the beginning of a line will be stripped out, but 2 or more spaces are honored.I actually had to add spaces to the beginning of the "raw" text above to keep it from getting distorted just like the "mail shows" text.I guess that&#x27;s a work-around at least...pad anything with important leading whitespace with enough *extra* leading space to have at least 2 per line.

ulric. · Answer

I have got this problem too with outputs of the diff command:38          38    o27-3-sw3                50                      50                      00:13:21:89:6D:8039          39    o27-3-gs3                48                      48                      00:25:61:D3:9D:40     -40          40    o27-3-sw1                50                      50                      00:0F:20:57:8E:80    +40          40    o27-3-sw1                50                      50                      00:1C:2E:4C:1D:80     41          41    o27-3-sw2                50                      50                      00:12:79:20:5D:80It should look like this:38          38    o27-3-sw3                50                      50                      00:13:21:89:6D:8039          39    o27-3-gs3                48                      48                      00:25:61:D3:9D:40     -40          40    o27-3-sw1                50                      50                      00:0F:20:57:8E:80    +40          40    o27-3-sw1                50                      50                      00:1C:2E:4C:1D:80     41          41    o27-3-sw2                50                      50                      00:12:79:20:5D:80Could anybody please find the answer?

Duane · Answer

I don&#x27;t see any differences. ?

ulric. · Answer

Sorry, I did not succeed in using the editor to make the spaces show up. The first character should be a blank, + or -.