We dont read rtf natively, so something else is doing the html translation (or sending it as text that we translate to html). i.e. outlook or exchange.
I suggest creating a bug on bugzilla.ximian.com and attaching an example message - even if it just gets closed with 'not our problem' :) Michael On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 00:33, Ian Perryman wrote: > Hi am relatively new to evolution, but I like it a lot so far. I could > not find this topic in the archives nor FAQ. > > I am working in an organization that is almost entirely Windoze based. > Most people are using Outlook in a native windoze 2000 environment. > > I am running RH8.0, now with Evolution 1.4 obtained with red-carpet. I > use Evolution to connect to the exchange server using imap. I also have > vmware running win2k which I use mostly for running Outlook Calendar (I > know I should try Ximian connector ... one day I will). I often have > both outlook (inside vmware) running simultaneously with Evolution > running natively. Both are pointed at the same set of email on the > exchange server. > > Anyway, most people use the default settings in Outlook to send messages > in rich text format (RTF). > > One thing that has been annoying me is that the message upon receipt has > all of the paragraphs chopped up into individual lines each about 70 > chars long. This process does not seem handle long url's well. > Usually, long urls get mangled, and I cannot use the message to hop to > the url directly. > > I have tested this and it happens even if I create the message in > outlook (in vmware) and save it to my drafts folder, and then view it > from evolution. That is the message is never really "sent", only saved. > > I would have thought there would be some form of RTF to HTML mapping > that would allow the message to be handled "nicely" so that line breaks > would not be required. > > As far as I can tell there is no control for how to handle received > messages. Is there a setting somewhere that I am missing? > > Regards, > Ian Perryman > Ottawa Technology Center > Altera Corporation. > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
