1 Feb
2012
1 Feb
'12
11:41 a.m.
On Feb 1, 2012, at 2:16 PM, Alexey Toptygin <alexeyt at freeshell.org> wrote:
On Wed, 1 Feb 2012, Dave McGuire wrote:
I get super-long unwrapped lines from some people in Thunderbird.
Format=flowed is evil. If I want a CR, I'll type one.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
New Kensington, PA
On 02/01/2012 01:34 PM, David Riley wrote:
If both the sending and receiving client support format=flowed, then paragraph-length
lines get rendered correctly regardless of differences in the sender's and
receiver's screen width... Google tells me that apple mail does format=flowed by
default, Eudora, Opera, Thunderbird and Hotmail all support it, and I know pine supports
it (that's what I use). So, when David Riley sends mail from apple mail, what sort of
client do you have to be using to have trouble reading paragraph-long lines? Apple has apparently decided that they don't
need a
line wrap option in their mail client, which I otherwise
very much prefer. Manual line wrap is problematic when
there's no column position indicator.
I switched to Thunderbird for precisely that reason. I really liked OS X's Mail.app
for several years, but it just seemed to become less nice with each release. I wish
they'd learn to just leave stuff the hell alone when it works well and does everything
it needs to do.