Is there anyway to increase the displayable size of emails to avoid the annoying "Message Clipped" additional step in Gmail?
[Message clipped] View entire message
Desktop:
![[Message clipped] View entire message](https://i.stack.imgur.com/aelj6.png)
Mobile:
asked Jan 20, 2014 at 21:20
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I actually never saw that. Open up in a new window? Ctrl + minus?– Jacob Jan TuinstraJan 20, 2014 at 21:24
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1To ensure that messages load quickly, Gmail displays only a portion of the text of long messages. Ctrl + minus won't change anything (the limit is based on the number of characters). I'm trying to avoid having to open up in a new window :)– Franck DernoncourtJan 20, 2014 at 21:27
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Is this what you are looking for: chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/trimless-for-google-mail/…– Jacob Jan TuinstraJan 20, 2014 at 21:34
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Any updates on this since this is an old question?– Adam_GAug 12, 2021 at 16:36
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@Adam_G Nothing changed on Gmail's side.– Franck DernoncourtAug 12, 2021 at 18:09
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There is no way to disable clipping in Gmail, as per this rather new post on the Google Product Forum.
This web app in the Chrome store comes as recommended in the different posts:
Note: I'm not affiliated to the vendor of the app
answered Jan 20, 2014 at 21:49
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Thanks good to know about the extension, as it solves another issue I created this distinguishing for this webapps.stackexchange.com/q/54797/18147 : can you copy your sentence+link about Trimmless for Google Mail as an answer there? It would be nice as a reference. Regarding the [Message clipped] issue, basically I'm looking for some extensions as I feel it should be feasible. It looks like as of now there is no solution for it but the UI issue has been present for ever so I'm still somehow hoping for some workaround. Jan 21, 2014 at 5:09
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even more - it looks like Google is systematically locking conversations on that topic...– axdNov 30, 2020 at 10:34
I've been debugging an HTML signature - not much text at all - and eventually whittled it down to a couple of M-dashes (in the opening hours text) as the culprits. Looks like GMail doesn't like them, whether they're written as – or —
So it's possible (?) that GMail's [Message clipped] is for something as innocuous as a stray character
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2Thanks, very interesting, I was indeed wondering how comes sometimes I get that [Message clipped] so early in the email. May 27, 2021 at 23:40
It is caused by the sender including soft-hyphens – (e.g. ­ or —) or other dash-like characters - it's nothing to do with the size of the message, and nothing you as a recipient can fix.
The reason is probably because of a convention that email signatures and disclaimers usually come at the end of email messages after a line of one or more dashes - google is saving you from wasting time on that more-or-less useless info (which is potentially a tricky legal mistake by google - should they really be allowed to strip legal disclaimers??? It's not their email to change, and they don't have the owner (sender) permission to do that either...)
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