Hi Graeme, On 11/05/2011 07:40, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 10/05/2011 10:38, Lukasz Sokol wrote: >> >> the below code is received as one long line, totally unformatted, >> totally no newlines, quoted by Thunderbird, even in quoting I see one >> long line (reader window wraps it automatically, thus becoming even >> less readable...) > > Yes, that is because his email client sends each email as HTML & Plain > Text, and the plain text is auto-generated, thus rubbish formatting. I > also use Mozilla Thundebird. Peter's email was viewable on my side > because my mailer settings in "View > Message body as > Original HTML", OOh. that made a lot of difference ...
> but when I reply, I post as plain-text, irrespective of what the > original message format was. Yeah.So am I (or so I think ;). > > Very good email clients that don't try and screw too much with ones > emails and formatting are: The Bat, Sylpheed and PM-Mail 2000. I'd rather go on writing an add-on to Thunderbird that fixes the issues than switch the mailer :)))))) > > Even Mozilla Thunderbird mangles your emails even with the "plain text" > setting enabled. All this and suggested settings or work-arounds are > covered in a Linux Kernel mailing list documentation page on how to send > patches to the Linux Kernel mailing list. > > Here is the link: > http://kernel.org/doc/Documentation/email-clients.txt Yeah seen that, and I have my settiongs checked again ;) ... in my 3.1.10, send_plaintext_flowed was already false; preformat mode, will see how it went ;) (toggle wordwrap ext. I don't have time to look into about now...) > > This link just proves in what a sad state the emails clients are. No > consistency and standards. What is interesting is that many text based > email clients behave better than the GUI counterparts, in this regard. > It seems Old School rules! :) OTOH no mention of EXIM there ;) Thunderbird is sufficiently old-school for me thank you very much ;) (disclaimer: I work on Windows, and I have had lotsa trouble forcing my office into using thunderbird instead of webmail sites...) ;) > > Regards, > - Graeme - > Cheers, Lukasz -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
