Ean Kingston said: >>>>My greatest problem is that quotes are rewrapped to a seesaw. (...) >>> That is the standard e-mail way of quoting. What do you want instead? >> ??? The standard way is not to touch quoting in any way. Seesaw is not readable, >> this is why you don't find it in newspapers or books. Actually, it is only the broken Microsoft way of doing it. Any reasonable reader does >> it correctly.
That is a nice example of the problem. > What do you consider a 'reasonable reader'? Almost every mail reader for the last ten years excluding those by Microsoft and Netscape before version 3, also some versions of Eudora have problems. Unix readers are good examples (e.g., mutt or pine) or Mozilla for any OS, typically news readers (same problem, no matter if they can also do mail like Mozilla or Forte Agent) do it correctly. Since quoting is even more important in usenet Son-of-RfC-1036 even states that you should not touch quotes (of course, the user can). > I did a quick check of a > number of e-mail programs and they all quote with '>' symbols. That of course is absolutely correct. > Most of them do auto-wrap at somewhere between 74 and 80 characters. Actually, this is something I don't see. Some are capable of doing it on user request, though, like Mozilla. If they do they will not produce the seesaw pattern but will reflow quoted paragraphs. > I checked > Evolution, K-Mail, Squirrelmail, TWIG, Outlook and Outlook Express (the latter two > with all the MS extensions turned off. The last two are seriously broken. They are famous for broken quoting. pi ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com -- squirrelmail-users mailing list List Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
