On 28 Jul 2002, it is alleged that Steven sauntered in to 
netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news and loudly proclaimed:

> Hi all,
> I'm having problems with Netscape/Mozilla mail viewing and composing.
> When I open a news post or message that has one ore more levels of
> quotes it often looks like Netsacpe/Mozilla tries to wrap the quoted text.

Well, yes.  What it looks like is that one or more or your correspondents is 
using OE; Moz seems to be picking up the badly-quoted text generated by OE.  
(NC 4.x seems to have similar problems.)

> When respond to a message the message composer inserts extra lines
> between paragraphs. This also happens when I copy and paste a word
> or a phrase in the composer, an extra line is added. Is this how it should
> work or is something wrong with my settings? It's pretty annoying!

I'm not quite sure what you mean here.  But I'm replying to this using Xnews 
right now, so I can't actually check.

> When I save a draft of a message I am composing and reopen it later or
> if I "edit as new" an existing message there is also extra lines between
> the paragraphs and spaces before every quoted line. The message loses
> the gray "quote marker line" before quoted text which is replaced with
> "greater than" quote signs.

The grey bar is a display characteristic; you won't see it if you're 
replying to or editing a plain-text message, tho' you will see it with HTML 
mail.
 
> Also, I have set text wrap to 72 characters but if I don't insert returns
> manually the text is not wrapped.

Text wrap is there for newsreaders (such as this one) that don't support 
format=flowed.

> Here's some screenshots that illustrate what happens:
> http://www.sifre.demon.nl/test/message_mess.html
> 
> Can anybody explain how al this should work and how best to fix it or
> how to use it? As it is I find it all very unfriendly:-(

Come, now, it's not /that/ bad, is it?

Tell you what:  Post to one of the user fora listed below (the n.p.m.* 
groups are actually for developer discussion) and we'll see if we can't get 
you straightened away. . . .

/b.

> Thanks,
> 
> Steven



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