[email protected] writes: > Ralph Corderoy <[email protected]> writes: > > > Well, if this hypothetical utility existed it would have certainly flagged > >your message as violating the >78 column limit :-) > > That's disconcerting. For more than a decade now, the default for my editor > was for no line wrapping. I inserted new lines to generate my own > formatting. But some recipients complained that my Emails are "jagged". This > was caused by their Email client inserting its own line endings. > > So I gave up trying to control the format in which recipients see my Email. > Just last week, I wrote the code to make line wrapping be the default > whenever I'm editing a file in my drafts folder whose name is all digits. > > So... do I conform to standards or make my my recipients unhappy? In passing > I note that almost all the Email I get, not from [email protected], has > very long lines. > > Norman Shapiro
Someone else can probably say this more clearly, but the line limit is the "transmitted" limit. This means that it applies to text/plain. If you get messages with different encodings they can encode longer lines such that the transmitted lines are not longer than 78 characters. Jon _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
