On 10/20/2000 12:56 PM, "Paul Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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)?
Yes, plain text clients like Emailer will get the wrapped version.
>> 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.
There's a chance, but no promises. It's just a matter of priorities,
nothing more than that. I agree it's a useful standard, and I realize there
are people out there that want it, but it's not the highest priority at this
point. It won't really solve the problem sending scripts out at this point,
since Eudora is the only client to support it (that I know of), and it also
supports HTML, but if nothing else, it would be nice to parse format=flowed
when receiving mail.
Dan
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