Wow, I was launching quite a discussion with my thread...;-)
I don't like at all, when an application is modifying my text after typing, especially when I am not able to inspect and influence the result. Please make hard wrapping optional! Urs >I vote for 2 or 3. > >We often exchange paragraphs of text for inclusion in our web sites. The >automatic hard wrapping of PM makes it necessary to edit the message >content in order to have it "flowing" into the web pages... > >Peter > >Am Sa, 10. Sep 2005, schrieb C. A. Niemiec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>>Is that in the manual or FAQ somewhere? I've certainly never seen that >>>limit publicized anywhere. >> >>No, it's not documented. But here's a few points: >> >>1. Jerome (or someone from CTM) dropped a quick note on the list a while >>back to confirm PowerMail _does_ wrap outgoing mail. I believe the amount >>is 78 characters. >> >>2. The RFC for Internet Mail (RFC 2822 <http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/ >>rfc2822.html>) recommends wrapping at 78 characters per line. >> >>3. PowerMail does _not_ hard wrap incoming mail. Also confirmed by CTMDev. >> >> >>Possibilities I can think of: >> >>1. Leave it the way it is. "Our mail is hard-wrapped at 78 characters, >>and we _like_ it that way!" :) >> >>2. Have an _application-wide_ preference to define a hard wrap of ## >>characters for outgoing mail, or none at all. Easiest to grasp >>conceptually -- one place in the usual preferences. Default could be 78 >>as currently. This might be useful for PowerMail users in a workgroup >>environment who want their mail-text free flowing, and so could turn it off. >> >>3. Have a _per-account_ preference as with #2 to set a hard limit. For >>things like specific accounts used for mailing lists. Because some things >>you send out you know will be quoted a few times (especially on lists). >>Setting it shorter will prevent the overflow problem from happening as >>quickly (overflow = a full line, then one character, a full line, then >>three characters, etc.). Plus, some e-mail services hard wrap mail >>shorter (or people can set a preference to do so). I have see some e-mail >>like this from Yahoo accounts IIRC. There are likely others. >> >>4. Have an option in the _filters_ to hard wrap text in outgoing mails to >>a certain limit for certain addresses, like mailing lists. Point #3 for >>filters basically. Wouldn't affect incoming mail. >> >>5. There is no point 5. >> >>6. Have a text scrubber (like TextSoap, BBEdit, etc.)** to neatly and >>automagically reformat all mail so you never realize nor care what >>wrapping is. "It just works." >> >>** I know these two third-party, and that you can access them via >>AppleScripting right now. This point is to identify an integrated >>solution, i.e. text scrubbing. Whether or not CTMDev should roll their >>own is off topic. >> >>7. Further options... (?) You name 'em. >> >> >>Having said all that, remember, remember, remember (!) -- having an >>adjustable hard-wrap preference will never format all of your mail >>perfectly, will not guarantee that nothing will happen to it on the way, >>nor that the person on the other end will receive looking exactly the way >>you sent it. Never. You have been warned. >> >> >>Ok, so I vote for Point #4 above. Let's change it. ;) > > >-- > Peter Baral Medienwerkstatt Muehlacker > Verlagsgesellschaft m.b.H. > +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Web: <http://www.medienwerkstatt-online.de> > > >
