>> Format flowed messages are wrapped, and you have to use a special algorithm
>> to unwrap them. So, any client without format flowed support will see these
>> messages as wrapped. Entourage did not explicitly wrap it. You will see
>> the same behavior in any client that does not support format flowed.
>
> But I have certainly received unwrapped plaintext messages in OE and
> Entourage from people on the scripting lists sending messages from Eudora
> and (I think) Netscape. How do they do it then?
I'm not sure that everyone is using the same words to mean the same things.
For example, were they plain text messages or were they "Content-type:
text/plain" messages?
MIME supports messages without "hard wrapping" the lines. Most modern
clients can read these messages, they appear to be "plain text" messages;
however, they're not "text/plain" which is technically the only true "plain
text" message.
I have a sneaky suspicion that some people are talking about "plain text"
and some people are talking about "text/plain". And so long as that's the
case, no one is going to agree.
Unfortunately, I don't seem to have a convenient example of MIME's "soft
wrapped" lines laying around. They're recognizable because they have the
appropriate headers (which slip my mind) and when you view the source of the
message most lines are terminated with a " =" that indicates to the
receiving email client that it's a "soft wrap". And they're not the same
thing as "text/html".
mikel
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