Kmail causes many blank lines in Reply & Forward

[Axel Braun]

On the risk of repeating myself - https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=462895 shows this malformatting in HTML answers. Plain text is fine

Am Donnerstag, 27. Juni 2024, 12:58:37 MESZ schrieb fafisfriend at gmail.com:
> Hi there,
> 
> I have been experiencing the same problem for years... It would be
> nice to get it solved or just to be able to try some workarounds.
> 
> Might it have any relation with the "Word wrap at column" setting?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 5:42 PM Andrew Liberty <libertytime at riseup.net> wrote:
> >
> > Bonjour!
> >
> > Unfortunately I never got an answer ...
> > So, I try it again.
> >
> > My email program KMail (version 5.19.3), running on a KUbuntu 22.04.4 LTS (Jammy), doubles the spaces after every paragraph in quoted messages, while replying or forwarding an email message. If an email is written back and forth several times, then the empty lines between paragraphs are so large that you can hardly follow the text.
> >
> > How can I get rid of these unnecessary empty rows?
> >
> > My settings in Composer - General - Format are:
> > ☑️ Use smart quoting
> > ☑️ Reply or forward using the same visual format as the original message
> > ☑️ Improve plain text version of HTML message
> >
> > My settings in Composer - Standard Templates are:
> > All on default!
> > Quote indicator: >
> >
> > I have already experimented around and tried other settings - without success.
> > I also didn't find a solution on the Internet.
> >
> > Can you please support me with this KMail issue?