Re: Mail readers

2004-03-20 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Parv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anybody still interested in this, should not miss ... > > RFC 3676, The Text/Plain Format and DelSp Parameters, Feb 2004 > ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3676.txt Thanks for the tip. It's a shame that people (e.g., MSFT and its supporters) can't all a

Re: Mail readers

2004-03-19 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Bart Silverstrim thusly... > > According to the FAQ, it (f=f) was developed (IIRC) by Qualcomm to Anybody still interested in this, should not miss ... RFC 3676, The Text/Plain Format and DelSp Parameters, Feb 2004 ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc367

RE: Mail readers

2004-03-19 Thread Dan MacMillan
EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bart Silverstrim Sent: March 19, 2004 04:54 To: FreeBSD-questions Mailing List Subject: Re: Mail readers On Mar 19, 2004, at 2:49 AM, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Bart Silverstrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> No. Nothing. Format=flowed applies so

Re: Mail readers

2004-03-19 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 19, 2004, at 2:49 AM, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: Bart Silverstrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: No. Nothing. Format=flowed applies solely to plain-text messages. HTML messages already have something functionally equivalent to f=f: the attribute, which... um... quotes blocks of text. When f=f

Re: Mail readers

2004-03-18 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Bart Silverstrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No. Nothing. Format=flowed applies solely to plain-text messages. HTML > messages already have something functionally equivalent to f=f: the > attribute, which... um... quotes blocks of text. When f=f > mailers that also can handle HTML encounter te

Re: Mail readers (was: Re: Portupgrade troubles, interactive ports)

2004-03-18 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 18, 2004, at 5:22 PM, Parv wrote: in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Bart Silverstrim thusly... Incidentally, can others on the list verify where my mail is wrapping? Love to! Your first reply did not wrap around ~72 characters; it went until the width of my terminal (mutt 1.5.5.1_1 in

Re: Mail readers (was: Re: Portupgrade troubles, interactive ports)

2004-03-18 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Bart Silverstrim thusly... > > Incidentally, can others on the list verify where my mail is wrapping? Love to! Your first reply did not wrap around ~72 characters; it went until the width of my terminal (mutt 1.5.5.1_1 in xterm) for all practical purposes.

Re: Mail readers (was: Re: Portupgrade troubles, interactive ports)

2004-03-18 Thread Terry L. Tyson Jr.
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 03:52:30PM -0500, Bart Silverstrim wrote: > Incidentally, can others on the list verify where my mail is wrapping? > I was working with someone offlist to see if, in Mail.app, my wrapping > is affected by the size of the composition window when I send the > message. I n

Re: Mail readers (was: Re: Portupgrade troubles, interactive ports)

2004-03-18 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 18, 2004, at 3:42 PM, Jerry McAllister wrote: Yup. I do it manually - just hit that nice big Enter/Return key between a couple of word when I get out around that far. Which is why, on my mailer, quoting you gives a full line then one word then a line...it kind of reminds me of a person I

Re: Mail readers (was: Re: Portupgrade troubles, interactive ports)

2004-03-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > > On Mar 17, 2004, at 5:45 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > 1) Please wrap your lines at 70 characters so your emails may be > > easily read. > > I'm using Mail.app on OS X 10.3.3, and someone offering some advice > from this list also > asked me to fix line wrapping. I checked and checke

Re: Mail readers

2004-03-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
Bart Silverstrim wrote: [ ... ] Out of curiosity, what email program are you using that it's not showing up? I thought the FAQ said that many term emailers support the flowed format...essentially my hitting "enter" at the end of each line is making it more difficult for the format=flowed-speaking