CSS support in the Evolution e-mail client

Question

This question may be more appropriate for another SE site, if so apologies. Basically we are writing an HTML email template. It's just a simple table layout with some td styling and text styling ( a 's, b 's and span 's). All CSS is inline.

The background styles to the td's are rendered fine. But all text styling CSS seems to be completely ignored in Evolution. I've even tried the old-school:

<font color="red">blah</font>

But to no avail. Is it possible to style text for the Evolution e-mail client ?

Thanks

Richard.

Answer 1

Seems like it does not support CSS at all:

If an HTML mail is not correctly displayed in Evolution it might be that the formatting is specified as CSS. CSS is currently not supported by gtkhtml (the part that Evolution uses to display HTML). This will likely be fixed in version 3.2 when Evolution will use WebKit instead of gtkhtml.

http://live.gnome.org/Evolution/FAQ#Why_does_Evolution_not_correctly_display_some_HTML_emails.3F

Also, it seems that the market share of Evolution is somewhere below 1%.

Answer 2

It IS possible to style text for Evolution!

I used Evolution for a while (and it sucks), and i succeeded to create a signature for my emails.

I don't exactly remember how i did it, but i do recall i had to write HTML 4.01 Transitional. At the time, i investigated and experimented a little, and it seemed that HTML 4.01 Transitional had the best support and most uniform appearance across the email clients.

Unfortunately (for you) i stopped using Evolution a few months ago and i don't have the code anymore. Sorry.