Using Discourse as a ticket/support system for our company. Everything was super easy to set up so I applaud all the people that came before in order to pave the way. The only thing I’m finding a little odd is how carriage returns are being handled when going back and forth between e-mail and the web interface. I created a new ticket via e-mail like so: This is a semi-final test to make sure that staged user creation works correctly for tickets. Thanks, David And it showed up as a new topic correctly, looking the same. I replied using the web interface and typed: This is a reply to test ticket 7. So far so good. Thanks, Support But the e-mail that was received back to the OP looks like: This is a reply to test ticket 7. So far so good. Thanks, Support The next reply, from e-mail client to forum went like so: This is a reply to the reply to test ticket 7. Confused yet? Thanks, David Posted as: This is a reply to the reply to test ticket 7.Confused yet? Thanks, David And the final reply was sent from support staff to “customer” via e-mail. Email formatted like so, (and showed up on the topic the same way): The only thing confusing me is why the formatting gets messed up? Thanks, Support But again was all one line in the e-mail that the customer received. I need to fix it so it’s consistently adding line breaks where I need them. Sometimes our replies might be several paragraphs long and we’ll need those breaks for readability.

I found the freaking culprit! I had enabled Post excerpts in emails The description is In notification emails, always send excerpts instead of full posts But that’s not quite correct. It applies to ALL emails, not just notifications. An excerpt is a small portion, there is no need to strip formatting just because it’s not the entire message. In my mind, a reply received via e-mail isn’t a notification, it’s a reply. A notification is, “Hey user X just @mentioned you.” I’m just glad I can now move forward with out new ticketing system. I hope this helps someone else. And maybe the team can either fix that setting, or at least clarify the description.

Just noticed that bold and italics don’t translate from web to e-mail either.

Can anyone confirm this is also happening for them? Is it just something about my specific setup? I’m trying to move our company over to Discourse for our tickets and away from what we currently use as I really dislike it, but it does at least keep formatting correct.

Has nobody else dealt with this issue? Even if you haven’t please let me know so that I can verify that it’s something specific to my setup as opposed to a general Discouse issue.

i think student finance England have this problem, but worse their line breaks are taken out altogether and you get no space but you can put a bizzarly formatted email on discourse composer and it fixes itself, like magic… looks like your outbound mail parser likes to remove line breaks is there a way to force the line breaks to be parsed?

[imagem] tknospdr: Just noticed that bold and italics don’t translate from web to e-mail either. neither deos rendered Math, though the parser deos strip the $ signs

I’ve just done a quick test with a PM to a test user and it looks fine in zohomail: The PM: [A vibrant, bustling street scene in Morocco showcases a spice market with colourful pyramids of spices, merchants attending to customers, and traditional architecture creating a lively atmosphere. (Captioned by AI)] The email: [A vibrant red double-decker bus drives along a bustling city street, with pedestrians and buildings visible in the background. (Captioned by AI)] What email client did you send it to?

I have viewed received messages in Apple Mail, Zoho webmail, and Gmail online. The server is sending outbound messages with Zoho mail settings. I sent this from Discourse: [A screenshot displays a profile icon with a checked circle and accompanying text including a line break test and a signature from David. (Captioned by AI)] This is what it looks like in Zoho mail and Apple mail: [A close-up image of a spider is displayed alongside a social media post from David Muszynski with text about a line break test. (Captioned by AI)]

[imagem] tknospdr: Just noticed that bold and italics don’t translate from web to e-mail either. Just for an extra data point, mine also work fine for this as well: [A screenshot displays an email from 'JammyDodger' to 'Test_Six', testing strong and emphasised text, with a 'Visit Message' call to action and an unsubscribe link. (Captioned by AI)]

Alright, this is definitely something with how I’ve set up this site’s email functionality. I set up another site’s e-mail functionality and everything seems to be working correctly. I think this is a function of how I’ve had to forward e-mail for the testing of ticketing while our official e-mail address is still in use by our old system. I’m pretty confident at this point that once I can send e-mail directly it should work. Thanks for the help!

Looks like it’s something else about how the site is set up, I removed the extra forward and all my formatting is still being stripped. So now I’m back to being at a loss. Both sites use smtppro.zoho.com based accounts for sending out email. It’s not possible that a theme component or plugin would affect anything like this would it?

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tknospdr (David Muszynski) 27 Junho , 2025 19:14 2

Acabei de notar que negrito e itálico também não são traduzidos do web para e-mail.

Tópico		Respostas	Vistas
"Broken" quoting of/into email Feature	17	1916	18 Julho , 2017
Change <br> into \r\n in incoming emails Product Support	0	323	14 Julho , 2022
Text of forwarded emails don't show up in posts Feature	28	8929	9 Novembro , 2019
Line breaks when replying via email Product Support	7	1641	5 Junho , 2019
Abbreviated post instead of full post? Product Support	7	833	5 Dezembro , 2018

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