My Reply follows quote. On 28/02/2003 09:12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (chris) >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sheafe Ewing), [EMAIL PROTECTED] >(Emailer Talk) >>As I look at this Emailer message box, it would allow for around eighty >>characters to be inserted before wrapping. >> >>I compose and receive emails which are sent and received.... ones where >>the lines obviously don't appear onscreen as they were composed. >> >>Even sending a copy to myself, the copy often gets chopped up. >> >>QUESTION: Why does this happen? And, can I do anything about it? >> >>I've tried using TextSOAP to wrap the text at sixty characters, but doing >>that with each and every outgoing mail is a drag. >> >>Thanks for any answers and suggestions. > >Emailer allows for a much larger width than it sends on to the SMTP >server. Why? I have NO idea. That just seems to be the way they wrote it. > >It will wrap the lines at 72 characters when it sends to the mail server. >Why? Because some mail servers don't want longer lines. Some will accept >any length per line, some will accept 256 characters per line, some will >allow 80 characters per line. > >The end result is, what you write in Emailer is rarely what you get. ---------- As I recall, during the development of version 2 of Emailer, there was a lot of discussion of the "wrapping" specs of various email standards. The end result was a decision by the programmers that set the "hard wrap" you see today. The same decisions had/have to be made by programmers for any email client. The varied implementation of the "standards" by different programmers produce different results.
To further complicate the process, different users of the many email clients set their preferences for font and size to display it what they believe to be "attractive" ways. The process of sending these messages across the internet often produces less than desireable results. Ken ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
