Yesterday one of our users got an incoming email rejection, with the error that their body was too short. The email html Gmail had produced was like the following:
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Hi Team,
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<div>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Vestibulum tincidunt ullamcorper erat, non porttitor diam suscipit porttitor. Fusce viverra ipsum id vulputate tristique.</div>
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Which Discourse parsed into this Markdown:
Hi Team
Omitting, of course, the real content of the message.
The issue is the email receiver makes the assumption that any element with a class prefixed with gmail_ can be thrown away (aside from gmail_default):
Unfortunately it doesn’t seem like Gmail makes things quite so simple.
@zogstrip I can PM you the original email if you’d like
