[Sorry, first time it's gone away to early] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>Where can I stop Powermail to hard wrap the text of my mails? I want >>Powermail to send my mails without hard line break. > >PowerMail inserts line breaks in outgoing mail automatically. It's been >discussed a few times here. Something official was said by CTM about this >(though I can't find it at the moment). See the following... >>>The Internet spec for mail (now RFC >>>2822 : <http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html>), recommends 78 characters >>>per line. >>> >>>Here is the direct quote: >>> >>>2.1.1. Line Length Limits >>> [snip] >>> The more conservative 78 character recommendation is to accommodate >>> the many implementations of user interfaces that display these >>> messages which may truncate, or disastrously wrap, the display of >>> more than 78 characters per line, in spite of the fact that such >>> implementations are non-conformant to the intent of this >>> specification (and that of [RFC2821] if they actually cause >>> information to be lost). Again, even though this limitation is put on >>> messages, it is encumbant upon implementations which display messages [snip] This RFC dates from 2001 - which is a centenary in IT-time! As it is written, it's "a more conservative recommendation". But in the meantime all of (serious) mail programs are able to handle it. I ask for this: Make for sending mails the option-choice for - to break automaticaly at 78 character OR - free flow of characters And the same option-choice for incoming mails.
