Re: Mail Wrapping

2010-08-16 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Monday, August 16, 2010 a las 09:58:50AM +0200, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller escribió: > One thing made me wonder. Did you correctly use all mutt settings? I have > e.g. found: > > > 3.238. smart_wrap > > > > Type: boolean > > Default: yes > > > > Controls the display of lines longer than t

Re: Mail Wrapping

2010-08-16 Thread Dr . H . Nikolaus Schaller
Summary answer... Am 15.08.2010 um 00:58 schrieb steve: >> >> Hi Steve, > > Hi Niklaus (not in Zürich toniht?) What important event is (was) there tonight? > Anyway, may studies have shown that the reader begins to be less > concentrated when lines exceed 80 caracters, that's *my* main point.

Re: Mail Wrapping

2010-08-15 Thread sam tygier
On 14/08/10 18:42, Gennady Kupava wrote: > Hi, Nikolaus, > > First, thanks for your work on next generation of free hardware, I hope > to use it one day. Didn't came to conclusion how my next device should > look like exactly, and i'm ok with fr so far. > > But about line wrapping - i am using web

Re: Mail Wrapping

2010-08-14 Thread steve
Le 14-08-2010, à 17:05:55 +0200, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller (h...@goldelico.com) a écrit : > The only solution is, that I promise to try to press the return key every now > and then (unless I forget)... IMHO, it is not a good solution. Otherwise, why use machines? ___

Re: Mail Wrapping

2010-08-14 Thread steve
Le 14-08-2010, à 15:41:06 +0200, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller (h...@goldelico.com) a écrit : > > Please people stop spamming about line length. > > If you MUA is so good then ask it to automatically split long lines :-p > > I agree that we should not spam - but IMHO this was raised as a serious > pr

Re: Mail Wrapping

2010-08-14 Thread steve
Le 14-08-2010, à 09:28:43 +0200, Matthias Apitz (g...@unixarea.de) a écrit : > It is the responsibility of your MailUserAgent to wrap lines correctly > around column 72. You are using Apple Mail (2.1081). If this can not do > this, just use another MUA or another system providing correct software.

Re: Mail Wrapping

2010-08-14 Thread steve
Le 14-08-2010, à 11:09:58 +0400, Paul Fertser (fercer...@gmail.com) a écrit : > "Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller" writes: > > Am 13.08.2010 um 22:35 schrieb steve: > >> Nikolaus, couldn't you wrap your lines to something more standard (72 or > >> so ?) Thanks, I like reading your prose, but those long l

Re: Mail Wrapping

2010-08-14 Thread steve
Le 14-08-2010, à 08:34:51 +0200, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller (h...@computer.org) a écrit : > > Am 13.08.2010 um 22:35 schrieb steve: > > > Le 13-08-2010, à 19:45:51 +0200, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller > > (h...@computer.org) a écrit : > > > >> such a thing is quite unlikely to expect from any large p

Mail Wrapping

2010-08-14 Thread Gennady Kupava
Hi, Nikolaus, First, thanks for your work on next generation of free hardware, I hope to use it one day. Didn't came to conclusion how my next device should look like exactly, and i'm ok with fr so far. But about line wrapping - i am using web interface to read community-ml, so no way to control

Re: Mail Wrapping

2010-08-14 Thread arne anka
sorry, but i completely fail to understand the issue. every mail client worth using should be able to wrap lines even for received mails when displaying. instead of forcing their idea of (maybe even outdated) conventions on other people, those having issues with lines being too long, simply sh

Re: Mail Wrapping

2010-08-14 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 14.08.2010 um 15:55 schrieb Matthias Apitz: > El día Saturday, August 14, 2010 a las 03:41:06PM +0200, Dr. H. Nikolaus > Schaller escribió: > >> If somebody can point me to the RFC that *requires* that lines must >> be *visibly* wrapped by the sender so that no client ever shows >> long line

Re: Mail Wrapping

2010-08-14 Thread Paul Fertser
Hi, "Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller" writes: > If there is no such RFC, please report bugs for your clients that > don't wrap long (MIME encoded) lines they receive to the width of > the display window. Nikolaus, thanks for the serious attitude wrt this issue. My client does wrap long lines to the wi

Re: Mail Wrapping

2010-08-14 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Saturday, August 14, 2010 a las 03:41:06PM +0200, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller escribió: > So Apple Mail *is* correclty sending wrapped lines according to RFC. > > I do not excactly know what the rules are to interpret the = signs at the > end of the line. I guess it has to do with > > Mime

Re: Mail Wrapping

2010-08-14 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 14.08.2010 um 10:14 schrieb ri...@happyleptic.org: > Please people stop spamming about line length. > If you MUA is so good then ask it to automatically split long lines :-p I agree that we should not spam - but IMHO this was raised as a serious problem. I could live with the idea that every

Re: Mail Wrapping

2010-08-14 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
> I don't know if my mail client uses these paramters - but it does not have > an option to do line wrapping when sending. Indeed. That's the one thing I really hate when using Mail.app. Cheers, -- :M: ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@l

Re: Mail Wrapping

2010-08-14 Thread rixed
Please people stop spamming about line length. If you MUA is so good then ask it to automatically split long lines :-p ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Mail Wrapping

2010-08-14 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Saturday, August 14, 2010 a las 08:34:51AM +0200, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller escribió: > > Nikolaus, couldn't you wrap your lines to something more standard (72 or > > so ?) Thanks, I like reading your prose, but those long lines are really > > irritating. > > Hi Steve, > > there are diffe

Re: Mail Wrapping

2010-08-14 Thread Paul Fertser
"Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller" writes: > Am 13.08.2010 um 22:35 schrieb steve: >> Nikolaus, couldn't you wrap your lines to something more standard (72 or >> so ?) Thanks, I like reading your prose, but those long lines are really >> irritating. > > there are different opinions if the 80 char line wra

Re: Mail Wrapping

2010-08-13 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 13.08.2010 um 22:35 schrieb steve: > Le 13-08-2010, à 19:45:51 +0200, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller (h...@computer.org) > a écrit : > >> such a thing is quite unlikely to expect from any large phone manufacturer. >> Even if they open up an existing design. They ususally squeeze every bit out >>