Re: Pref - character for quoted text

[Stuart Ballard]

barney wrote:
> 
> Daniel Bratell wrote:
> > 
> > format=flowed mails are just ordinary text/plain mails which stores some
> > information about line breaks and quoting level by following some
> > conventions laid out in RFC 2646. (Home exercise, without reading the
> > RFC, look at the mail source and try to figure out in what way it differ
> > from a normal text/plain non-format=flowed mail)
> 
> More interesting results...
> When I view message source, I see > for both non- and format=flowed. The
> only difference in the headers is this one little thing. I know, of
> course, that doesn't mean there isn't something else back there that I
> can't see.

Hint: Consider the use of whitespace...

BTW, Ben: How hard would it be to add a (hidden) pref for disabling
support of format=flowed entirely? As a short term measure until gecko
can be extended to support the necessary display, there are some people
(myself included) who would consider the blue bar a greater evil than
the lack of wordwrapping...

Stuart.