On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 11:06:19AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Andreas Janssen wrote: > >Kent West (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > >>Mild Netiquette Training: > > > >4] Use line wrapping > > Is my text not wrapping? I'm using mozilla-thunderbird, and I have it > configured to wrap plain text messages at 72 chars. However, I compose > my mail with the HTML editor, but when I hit send and am asked if I want > to send HTML or Plain Text, I always choose Plain Text when sending to > this list. > > When I get the list's version of my posted message and read it in > moz-thunderbird, it looks fine. When I use mutt to read the message (I'm > using IMAP, so I can get to the same message from both email clients > while it's still on the server), the message wraps fine and is readable. > > But at least two folks have added this "use line wrapping" to my "Mild > Netiquette Training" list, which makes me suspect that my messages > aren't wrapping. > > I want to "do the right thing", so let me know one way or the other > please, and if I'm not wrapping, I'll take any hints as to why not when > it seems that moz-thunderbird is correctly configured.
It looks fine to me. What's happening is that your mailer is using the format=flowed extension (RFC 2646, standards track). This involves it putting "format=flowed" in the content-type, ending every line in a paragraph except the last with a space, and otherwise wrapping lines normally. format=flowed allows mailers that are aware of it to intelligently wrap paragraphs in replies without fear of corrupting preformatted text. In other words, what your mailer is doing is *good*. Mailers that are unaware of format=flowed degrade to displaying the text normally wrapped. The people who've complained at you are using mailers that are aware of format=flowed and have a wide area available for displaying text. I'd say that if they see wide text as a result then it's their own problem. :) Perhaps these mailers can be configured not to unwrap format=flowed text so vigorously? Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]