Picking up with Chris Walker's post in thread "Re(4): Need help finding features/functions":
>But if the sender and the receiver allowed no limit on the line length >would the same have happened? In other words is it PM that chops the >line length on receipt, or does it happen somewhere in between? Or >possibly both? I get all my mail in PowerMail, yet I have a handful of messages that still wrap freely (they're clearly not broken at 78 characters per line) so I suppose PowerMail does _not_ put in any breaks upon receipt. It's not HTML (as it's turned off). Here's some sample headers (if a header, e.g. "X-Mailer:" is "missing," it was not specified): First, PowerMail's header (things sent from PM) looks something like this: >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII from hard-wrapped e-mails: a. >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 b. >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="----=_NextPart_05674794_535FE343BF067424" c. >Mime-Version: 1.0 >X-Mailer: SAP R/3 Internet Mail Gateway 4.6D4 >Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; Charset="US-ASCII" d. >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" e. and so sorry, but it came through in the hard-wrapping crowd: >X-Mailer: Courier 3.50.00.01.1085 (http://www.rosecitysoftware.com) (K) >From: "Hanagan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" from free-wrapping e-mails longer than 78 characters/line: f. >X-Mailer: SMTPit - FileMaker Pro Email Plugin (win ver. 3.0.8) >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable g. >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=boundary42 h. >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Boundary.11111111.11111111" i. >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >X-Mailer: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000 j. And get this: someone sent me a Hallmark card online -- no headers, no MIME-version, no Content-Type, and it flows. Add one to the free-wrapping crowd. If you've read this far, give yourself a big hug! ;) Ok, a few questions to clarify. Would those with knowledge please speak up: 1. I assume one can add two kinds of breaks: hard and soft. Is this the case and which does PowerMail add to outgoing mail? How does PowerMail interpret soft breaks if in fact they exist? 2. Does "Content-Type: ... format=flowed" make any difference (compare: d. f.)? If so, could/should specifying this parameter of the Content-Type be added to "Preferences... > Character Sets"? 3. Does Content-Type: multipart/alternative" make a difference? Can there be different kinds of "multipart/alternative"s that make a difference (compare: b. g. h.)? 4. Does "Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable" make any difference (compare: f. i.)? 5. Does having _no_ headers make a difference (j.)? Thanks for your patience. :) Chris (another Chris ;) --
