How to improve the HTML formatting in Evolution mail client

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I have a question about viewing HTML emails in the Evolution mail client. Basically, I am receiving some emails that look lovely in Thunderbird but not in Evolution because the HTML rendering of Evolution isn't as advanced.

Here is a screenshot of the difference:

Does anyone know how to improve the HTML rendering of Evolution? e.g. a plugin, tip, code patch, etc...

The closest I've got is to right-click the email, "Save As...", save as a html file, then open in Firefox. Not exactly streamline!

What emails can't it display well? We use the subversion revision control system which is set up to send an email whenever someone commits via svnnotify all nicely coloured via the --handler HTML::ColorDiff -d parameter. When Evolution fails to use the colours, I find it very hard to read the raw diff.

Tom · Answer

One workaround is to configure svnnotify with the -a parameter instead of -d (see svnnotify docs) so that instead of sending a email with the svn diff inline in the email, it sends a email with the diff as a email attachment. The advantage of this is that I can click on the attachment in Evolution and "Open with gedit", for example (gedit knows how to syntax hightlight a diff so it is more readable).

Meta: I won't accept this as a answer, because it is only a workaround. Perferably I'd like to receive the diff inline and have it rendered by Evolution.

Another workaround is to use Thunderbird for my mail client - but I like Evolution, the killer feature for me is the contacts sync with Ubuntu-one account.

How to improve the HTML formatting in Evolution mail client

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