HeavyDuty wrote:
SM 1.1.17, Win XP Pro SP3
I received several messages from a particular sender. When viewed in the
in-box screen, the sender's text wrapped to form nice paragraphs. View
message reveals that the original message is in plain text and not html.
But when I selected reply and opened the compose window, the original
text was quoted as one line of text a mile (1.6 kilometers) long!
Is there some setting to force quoted text (or for that matter composed
text) to wrap at 60 (72) characters?
As a first draft, yes: Edit | Rewrap in the composition window.
The setting for line length is at Edit | Mail & Newsgroups |
Composition: Wrap plain text messages at nn characters.
But if the source is sloppy, the results may also be sloppy. For
example, if paragraphs are not separated by an extra return (a blank
line), SeaMonkey (like Mozilla before it) will wrap them together as one
paragraph. Also, if the quote marks in the original are wrong, SeaMonkey
(like Mozilla before it) doesn't think to correct them. Thus:
>> This is a quoted reply that is
> mismarked.
will be treated as two separate authors.
Often when you have a single long line with one quote mark, SeaMonkey
(like Mozilla before it) will rewrap with one quote mark on the first
line and leave the other lines unmarked. You can manually enter the
quote marks and rewrap again, but it's an extra step.
And finally, some HTML mails will be treated as if they had returns
after every line, so rewrapping will introduce extra blank lines within
paragraphs:
> This is an example
>
> of what I'm talking about.
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Paul B. Gallagher
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