On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 03:22:11 -0400 Kyle Moffett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sep 15, 2007, at 07:19:01, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 11:50 +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > >> I haven't word wrapped it at all. The lines appear as whole lines > >> in Apple Mail (my email client). It must be your email client > >> that is wrapping them... > > > > Oddly, this line is still long in Andrew's reply but wrapped in > > yours. Must be some odd mailer interaction. > > Actually Apple Mail.app sends format=flowed wrapped to 73 > characters. So a wrapped line has a single space character right > before each 'wrapping' newline. If your mail client supports > format=flowed viewing and sends without format=flowed (like AKPM's > mailer appears to), then it will properly unwrap the lines and resend > without the wrapping. Mailers which *DONT* support format=flowed > will see the wrapped version. Normally this is what you want but > it's a PITA for patches and logfiles. > > I believe with Mail.app if you attach a .txt file it will be > unmangled and sent as "Content-Type: text/plain" and "Content- > Disposition: inline", so most email-clients will display it as part > of the message. Ah, thanks for the hint. I've switched mailer to claws-mail-3.0.0 and hacked the thing a bit so its useful. One of the things I added was a menu entry for respect_flowed_format. So I can now flip between flowed and non-flowed with a key. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
