# Incoming HTML Email Inconsistent

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [1 سبتمبر 2017، 1:12م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/incoming-html-email-inconsistent/69204 "2017-09-01T13:12:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [1 سبتمبر 2017، 11:57م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/incoming-html-email-inconsistent/69204/2 "2017-09-01T23:57:49Z")

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The first thing to bear in mind is that HTML is converted to Markdown for posting. Not all HTML converts reasonably to Markdown.

On top of that, HTML standards are all over the map for email, so it’s indeterminate – depending on your mail client that may not render at all. It would be nice if you could assume

> recent email client = current-ish version of modern web browser

but that is almost never the case. Even with Gmail there are significant limitations, that is why services like [https://litmus.com/](https://litmus.com/) exist and are critical.

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