Holger Metzger wrote:

> On Fri, 06 Jul 2001 09:54:41 +1000, Ken Foskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>>ON a similar problem,  how do I force all my emails to go out wrapped at 
>>, say, column 72.  I can set it on a mail recipient but it is not 
>>obvious how to do this on a newsgroup.
>>
> 
> Mozilla wraps mail/news at approx. 72 characters. Check out the source of
> the mail/news posting by pressing Ctrl+U. Mozilla appears to not breaking
> lines because it uses "format=flowed" for displaying messages - it
> "optimizes" your viewing experience by breaking lines at the end of the
> screen instead of a certain column.
> 
> You can disable this. Open your prefs.js and add the following line:
> 
> user_pref("mailnews.display.disable_format_flowed_support", true);

Well, that is much better. So what is the difference between this and 
the preference under Mail and Newsgroups:
When viewing plain text messages:
  Wrap text to fit window width

-which has no obvious affect that I can see.

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