powermail-discuss Digest #2920 - Thursday, March 10, 2011
Re: Text wrapping and quoted-printable
by "Sean McBride" <cwat...@cam.org>
Re: Text wrapping and quoted-printable
by "Tobias Jung" <new...@tobiasjung.net>
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Subject: Re: Text wrapping and quoted-printable
From: "Sean McBride" <cwat...@cam.org>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 22:12:43 -0500
On Feb 25, 2011, at 15:03, Ben Kennedy 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?
This bug annoys me as well. No doubt it will never be fixed. :(
> 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.
More chance of Apple fixing this. Is it just a convention or it is actually in
an RFC or something?
Sean
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Subject: Re: Text wrapping and quoted-printable
From: "Tobias Jung" <new...@tobiasjung.net>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 12:07:47 +0100
Sean McBride wrote (Wed, 9 Mar 2011 22:12:43 -0500):
>> 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.
>
> More chance of Apple fixing this. Is it just a convention or it is
> actually in an RFC or something?
RFC 3986 says:
"Using <> angle brackets around each URI is especially recommended as a
delimiting style for a reference that contains embedded whitespace."
... and of course, the line break IS a whitespace. Moreover, it
recommends to "recognize and strip both delimiters and embedded whitespace".
<http://labs.apache.org/webarch/uri/rfc/rfc3986.html#delimiting>
So it's just a recommendation but it has been around long enough so
Apple Mail (and every other email client) should know and respect this...
But of course we know that this is not the case so I still use <http://
tinyurl.com/> (or rather, the iTiny URL Dashboard Widget) whenever I
have to send long URLs. Hate to do this, but it seems to be the only
reasonable way...
Kind regards,
Tobias Jung
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