-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08.10.2010 19:53, Dave Cohen wrote:
> Before drupal sends an email, the content of that email is wrapped > to lines of no more than 77 chars. > > I can't think of a single good reason to do this. There are plenty. Tradition, for example. :) > I wouldn't use an email client that did this, Please excuse me for sending you a mail that has lines wrapped to no more than 80 chars. :p > and I don't want my drupal to do it either. > > It causes problems: > http://drupal.org/node/348327 > http://drupal.org/node/321026 > > So what am I missing? Can anyone tell me why this "feature" is in there? It is generally difficult to read lines that are too long. That's why books, newspapers etc all have some character limit. Email just follows this. The 80 character limit is due to early computers having exactly this limit. Cheers, Gerhard -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkyvXqcACgkQfg6TFvELooRPDwCfT7GCXw1zxJAvVGXkkLFBjpXt /OkAn273f193dAa7oXlifTbDfBrU8ZvY =4RxS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
