On 10/20/00 11:36 AM, "Dan Crevier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> See the archives for more on the topic. I don't want to rehash it here.
> But basically, not wrapping the lines and calling it text/plain violates the
> mail standards, and we strive to be standards compliant. There are two ways
> around this:
>
> 1. Use text/html, which doesn't have this requirement. In Entourage,
> sending an HTML message with no styling no longer reverts back to
> text/plain, so you can use this option to just send without wrapping.
Dan,
There were quite well regulated tests recently on the OneClick list to check
out this option. Unfortunately, some email clients still seemed to have
trouble, but maybe we didn't do it right. Are you saying that if we:
Paste a script into a plain-text message, so that it loses all formatting,
then click the HTML button, so we get the message in plain black, one font
only, no styling, but unwrapped lines, that:
1) Email clients that can read HTML will all get it unwrapped, with no
possibility of "different" Html implementation (e.g. Netscape
Communicator's) mangling it, and
2) Email clients that can't read HTML (like Emailer) will use the PlainText
version in the Source, and wrap it as usual, or will they also get it
unwrapped (as I think they do when it is sent format-flowed by Eudora or
Netscape)?
>
> 2. Use text/plain; format=flowed. Eudora supports this, but Entourage does
> not. Basically the message is sent wrapped, but there are rules that can be
> used to unwrap the message when received.
Any chance of Entourage supporting format-flowed in a later release? Or are
you all waiting it out to see if 98% of email will eventually come around to
MS's variety of HTML? I know that Eudora can read our HTML fine, but it
doesn't look as if many others can. And Eudora has, I think, an even more
fancy version of HTML available (I think they call ours "rich text") and can
also send plain text format-flowed. It would be good for Entourage and OE to
keep up with the competition, I think.
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Paul Berkowitz
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