Brian Heinrich wrote:
> 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.) I don't understand this. The message looks good in Google but is mangled in Netscape/Mozilla. Why? >> 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. Often (but not always) when I copy a single word from one position in a line to another position in the same line (or another for that matter) two returns are inserted before the word, making it the first word of a new paragraph... >> 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. I understand that. But the gray bar is also replaced once the message is posted and viewed in the group or from the inbox. >> 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. You mean Xnews? I insert returns manually when I compose messages in Netscape. If I don't do this often I get one line of text and a horizontal scrollbar in the message composer. Sometimes it wraps at some point. >> 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? It is terrible! Composing a message in Netscape 4 is much more straight forward and predictable. I often wonder why I don't go back to version 4 just for the mail client:-( > 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. . . . I've posted it to netscape.mozilla.user.general Steven -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
