Garth Wallace wrote:
> "Warren Bell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> Ben Bucksch wrote:
>>
>> > Warren Bell wrote:
>> >
>> >>what happens if I use >space> charactors to illistrate[sp]
>> >>somthing in my email? Is Mozilla going to decide I meant >> instead and
>> >>fix it for me
>> >>
>> > If you use the HTML composer and send as format=flowed, you will see
>> > whatever quotes you wrote, without "adjustments".
>> >
>> > I don't know the plaintext composer. If you deliberately disable f=f,
>> > that's your problem. There's an inherent amiguity in normal plaintext
> here.
>>
>> I don't want to send HTML mail or use the HTML composer just to make
>> sure my message gets sent the way I want. I just want to send in plain
>> text, Content-type: text/plain, and not have Mozilla do any adjustments
>> to it.
>
> Who said anything about HTML? "format=flowed" is a MIME parameter
> for text/plain (the whole MIME type is "text/plain;format=flowed") that
> solves some problems with old-school plaintext (which is "format=fixed"):
>
> * It is possible to type paragraphs without interspersed hard line breaks
> such that the receiving agent can reflow the text to fit in an arbitrary
> width,
> while still sending the message with (IIRC) 72 characters per line so older
> mailers that don't understand the format parameter will display it properly.
>
> * Replies to messages with long lines don't suffer quote-damage.
>
> * It differentiates between ">" marking quotations and ">" added inline.
>
> * It's fully backwards-compatible with older mailers that don't understand
> the parameter, without any HTML tags or gibberish formatting instructions
> interfering with the text.
>
> RFC 2646 describes the "flowed" parameter for text/plain:
> http://www.landfield.com/rfcs/rfc2646.html
>
>
>
You have to disable format-flowed in order to get rid of the HTML-style
quoting.
