On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 14:29:58 -0400, Tim Gray wrote: > On Apr 11, 2010 at 06:17 PM +0000, Camaleón wrote: >> Only some! That is what makes me puzzle :-) >> >> E-mails coming from Kmail, Alpine or even Gmail webmail (text based >> format) are fine, they wrap as they should. >> >> I have problems with Yahoo! webmail e-mails and Thunderbird (also >> tested with Outlook and fails the same way but coming from that MUA is >> expected). Thunderbird messages are more strange to fail. > > I still think it's a problem with the underlying text wrapping. I > misunderstood your first message - I thought this was occurring with > emails you were composing. If a client hard wraps a paragraph at 100 > characters, and you mutt soft wraps that same paragraph at 78 > characters, you'll end up with a bunch of lines with 78 characters, > interleaved with lines of 22 characters.
I'm sure Thunderbird MUA has set text wrapping at 72 or 76 characters, by default. As per Yahoo! webmail e-mail editor I dunno. > The only solution is to have mail clients either never insert hard > breaks (which can be problematic because not all receiving clients soft > wrap properly) or to have all clients use format-flowed. Which they > don't. > > Unless I am mistaken, there is not much you can do. Yes, but I'm a bit reluctant to think the problem comes from Thunderbird e-mail editor. Greetings, -- Camaleón
