powermail-discuss Digest #2919 - Saturday, February 26, 2011
Text wrapping and quoted-printable
by "Ben Kennedy" <[email protected]>
Re: Text wrapping and quoted-printable
by "Peter Lovell" <[email protected]>
Re: Text wrapping and quoted-printable
by "Charles Watts-Jones" <[email protected]>
Re(2): Text wrapping and quoted-printable
by "Bill Schjelderup" <[email protected]>
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Subject: Text wrapping and quoted-printable
From: "Ben Kennedy" <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:03:22 -0800
Hey all,
I'm loath to revive an old and (I thought settled) discussion, but I did
a search of my saved email and can't seem to find the particulars.
What was the final word on the state of PowerMail's handling of text-
wrapping in outbound messages?
I routinely get hell from my colleagues using Mail.app when I try to
send them URLs that get broken across line breaks. Mail.app does not
respect the angle-bracket convention, so it only sees the first part of
the URL.
It appears that PM sends outbound messages with a "Content-Transfer-
Encoding: quoted-printable", which should facilitate soft wrapping by
encoding soft EOLs with "=". However, PM omits the "=" in favour of a
plain CR/LF, which is interpreted as a hard line break.
Why is this? Is there some rationale in its favour? It is not obvious
to me how this is at all desirable.
cheers,
-ben
--
Ben Kennedy (chief magician)
zygoat creative technical services
http://www.zygoat.ca
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Subject: Re: Text wrapping and quoted-printable
From: "Peter Lovell" <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:35:12 -0500
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011, Ben Kennedy <[email protected]> wrote:
>Hey all,
>
>I'm loath to revive an old and (I thought settled) discussion, but I did
>a search of my saved email and can't seem to find the particulars.
>
>What was the final word on the state of PowerMail's handling of text-
>wrapping in outbound messages?
>
>I routinely get hell from my colleagues using Mail.app when I try to
>send them URLs that get broken across line breaks. Mail.app does not
>respect the angle-bracket convention, so it only sees the first part of
>the URL.
>
>It appears that PM sends outbound messages with a "Content-Transfer-
>Encoding: quoted-printable", which should facilitate soft wrapping by
>encoding soft EOLs with "=". However, PM omits the "=" in favour of a
>plain CR/LF, which is interpreted as a hard line break.
>
>Why is this? Is there some rationale in its favour? It is not obvious
>to me how this is at all desirable.
>
>cheers,
>
>-ben
Hi Ben,
I have noticed similar issues and filed a bug report back in November
about the issue.
I hadn't recognized it as an encoding issue - so I just complained that
PM was hard-folding lines when sending, unlike Mail.app.
So far I've not received any response but maybe it's time to push the
issue again as it is quite problematic.
I'm also having a *lot* of problem with PM not dealing with multi-part
MIME content boundaries, such as
Content-type: multipart/alternative;
boundary*0=----000000000000000000000000000000000000;
boundary*1=000000000000000000000000000
I get many messages formatted this way and PM is useless - it shows zero
content!. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. This is a real pain.
Regards.....Peter
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Subject: Re: Text wrapping and quoted-printable
From: "Charles Watts-Jones" <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 14:46:30 +0100
On 25 February Peter Lovell <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm also having a *lot* of problem with PM not dealing with
> multi-part MIME content boundaries, such as
> Content-type: multipart/alternative;
> boundary*0=----000000000000000000000000000000000000;
> boundary*1=000000000000000000000000000
>
> I get many messages formatted this way and PM is useless -
> it shows zero content!. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. This is a
> real pain.
Checking my files, I see that this issue was raised last September by
the 'usual suspects'. I find it seriously annoying with my only solution
being to read the affected mail on-line. Far from ideal, especially when
I want to keep the message. Now that CTM is up-to-date with PM and
FoxTrot, perhaps we'll see some action.
-- Charles
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Subject: Re(2): Text wrapping and quoted-printable
From: "Bill Schjelderup" <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 08:42:04 -0700
We can all hope so! This is an irritating issues for many. The web links
issue is a real pain too.
I sure hope CTM is working on new releases. As all of us purchased PM
when a "free" mail client was available there may still be a sufficient
number of customers who would pay again for a major upgrade. Time will
tell, so I keep an eye out for alternatives just in case...but none look
like they are worth the switching effort - as email is so important to
me, the purchase price cost is imaterial in relation to getting a tool
that works for me.
If PM 7 removed a few more PM irritations I'd upgrade at once.
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>On 25 February Peter Lovell <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I'm also having a *lot* of problem with PM not dealing with
>> multi-part MIME content boundaries, such as
>> Content-type: multipart/alternative;
>> boundary*0=----000000000000000000000000000000000000;
>> boundary*1=000000000000000000000000000
>>
>> I get many messages formatted this way and PM is useless -
>> it shows zero content!. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. This is a
>> real pain.
>
>Checking my files, I see that this issue was raised last September by
>the 'usual suspects'. I find it seriously annoying with my only solution
>being to read the affected mail on-line. Far from ideal, especially when
>I want to keep the message. Now that CTM is up-to-date with PM and
>FoxTrot, perhaps we'll see some action.
>
>-- Charles
>
>
>
>
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