>>>>> "Nick" == Nick Andrew <[email protected]> writes:
Nick> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 11:30:20AM +1000, Nick> [email protected] wrote: >> I'm seeing more and more emails that have incredibly long lines. Nick> I'm confused. You mean a single LF-terminated line is used for the whole $ Yes -- exactly like that (which appear5s in my client as a line of 80 chars then a $ sign at the end to indicate there's more to scroll). >> I can of course word-wrap, but that breaks quoting, Nick> I'm using mutt, and the lines wrap around on the terminal but Nick> when I quote them there's only a single '> ' used, which is Nick> quite alright. I usually follow the sender's style and so if I'm Nick> quoting a substantial chunk of text from a single line then I Nick> need only one '> ' anyway. I'm more concerned with getting quoted email and resending it with more quotes. RFC2646 has a solution --- it's `format=flowed', which says 1. Word wrap to fit screen 2. Lines starting with one or more > chars are quotes, so mark each in display as a quotation >> I'm assuming this is a Windows and Mac thing. Is there any setting >> I can get the senders to tweak that will label emails as >> `format=flowed'? Nick> Asking senders to change the way they email is usually Nick> fruitless. At the moment it's only a few senders, plus many spammers (which I ignore anyay, after reporting them) Peter C -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
