Hi Jerry, On 9 Aug 2004 at 10:11, Jerry Weinger spoke, thus:
> I want to know that people receiveing a message written on my Braillenote, > receive a regular formatted e-mail at their end. I want this to be the > case whether they receive the message on a Braillenote or a PC. A noble proposition. This is what I am pushing to be fixed (see below for specifics). > I need you to confirm a couple of things. Please tell me if I am > correct. Okay, these answers assume the usual case that a transport is functioning correctly. That is not the case for me, but is for a very significant number of your readers. Mail from you to me, if written on your BrailleNote, is always corrupt and, without editing, not suitable for printing, viewing or embossing. > A Braillenote user receiveing an e-mail message written on a > Braillenote, will then be able to emboss or print the message with > proper line wrapping. Correct? Correct. Your mail is not wrapped, so the BrailleNote at the receiving end will wrap it to the right margin. It may not look exactly as you wrote it, but that is insignificant - the mail is legible, printable and embossable. > A Windows PC user receiveing an e-mail > message written on a Braillenote, will then be able to emboss or print > the message with proper line wrapping. Correct? Correct, and for same reasons and with same provisions as above. > A "non-wrapping e-mail client user" receiveing an e-mail message written > on a Braillenote, will not then be able to emboss or print the message > with proper line wrapping. Correct? This is likely to be incorrect. The user of this program saves your message as a file if it cannot be read in the terminal displaying the mail, which is almost always the case. He or she may then open an editor which can wrap excessively long lines or process the saved flat file using a text formatter such as GNU fmt, and he or she may emboss or print the file in this condition. Often times, printing and embossing will automatically wrap long lines, both in Windows and elsewhere, due to the different print and embossing page requirements. > What can I do, using my Braillenote, to send a standard e-mail? I am > referring to the standard you mentioned in your previous post. Nothing, at present. This is the case I'm putting forward to PulseData. I think it is important, for all concerns and reasons, to line wrap mail sent by the BrailleNote at an appropriate column width, which is usually at or about 75 characters. This brings the BrailleNote fully in line with this standard and ensures that mail will be delivered correctly in all cases and will ensure, in most cases, predictable results of viewing and printing. The standard is called RFC 2822. It is an Internet standards document which has completed the standards track process, and you can read it at http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2822.txt . Cheers, Sabahattin -- Thought for the day: Intuition (n): an uncanny sixth sense which tells people that they are right, whether they are or not. Sabahattin Gucukoglu Phone: +44 20 7,502-1615 Mobile: +44 7986 053399 http://www.sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/ Email/MSN: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
