Re: Re: Manual line breaks in emails

On 3/28/26 7:53 PM, Grant Taylor wrote:
> On 3/28/26 4:19 PM, Dale wrote:
>> I set mailnews.display.disable_format_flowed_support to true and that
>> makes it wrap in the message pane no matter how wide the pane is.
> That's the behavior that I'm used to.
>
>> When I narrow the message pane, it also narrows the pane with subject,
>> email and all that.  That pane I need to stay the same.
> Fair enough.  I can appreciate that.
>
> You can also open the message to read in a new window and get the same
> reflowing effect when re-sizing that message window.
>
>> It took me a while to get that just right.  Now I have the massage
>> pane like I want as well, wrapped and not wide. The part I'm typing
>> is wide but I can likely deal with that.  At least I can read messages
>> without hurting my neck so much.  Saves wear on my chair as sometimes
>> I have to twist it around some.
> :-)
>
>> Wrapping in the composer part would be nice but I'm hoping my change
>> above doesn't affect what you receive tho.
> I believe that the message composition window will soft wrap at
> approximately the number of characters set.  But the lines will be
> unwrapped / re-wrapped when displayed.
>
> You should be able to save the message as a draft and view what it will
> look like in the Drafts folder.
>
>> Does this message look the same to you on your end?  If it changes,
>> well, need to find a new plan.  ;-)
> The message that I'm replying to looks like it used format=flowed correctly.

That's the big thing right there.  I want it to be correct on the other 
end for whoever receives the messages I send.  I want it wrapped here 
but others may not.  I'd like to have it like I want it here but they to 
have it like they want it there.  This seems to be the case so I'm a 
happy camper.


>
>> :-)  :-)
> :-)
>
>> P. S.  I just recently switched to Thunderbird from Seamonkey.  So this
>> is a fairly new setup with a new user.
> Fair enough.
>
> I believe that both Thunderbird and Seamonkey share a fair bit of
> lineage back to Netscape Composer in the '90s.  I'm not sure how far
> they have diverged from each other.  I know that they have diverged from
> each other some.


There is some similarity but Thunderbird is a lot more advanced if you 
will.  It has been updated a lot more with new features. Seamonkey seems 
to be having a slow death.  Very slow.  It is a really nice tool but it 
needs to do like Firefox did ages ago and do a complete rewrite to work 
better on the newer hardware and most importantly, be compatible with 
the new Firefox add-ons.  Most of the add-ons I had on Seamonkey have 
not been updated since Firefox changed the way add-ons are done.  
Firefox got there's updated to the new way but Seamonkey and its add-on 
method was left behind. I'll also say that a lot of websites no longer 
worked on Seamonkey. It is a big reason for me switching to Firefox for 
web browsing. I'd never go to a financial site or even a site that I 
order with that stores my card info with Seamonkey.  I might would 
browse a website while not logged in but that's it.  If I needed to be 
logged in, I'd switch to Firefox.

So, I'm sending emails in a way that allows people to adjust how it is 
seen on their end and I can view it on my end the way I like. I'm glad I 
said something now.  I thought this would never exist and turns out, it 
existed for ages.  ROFL  I spend to much time in my garden.  Which is 
where I will be tomorrow.  I got tomato plants that are getting to tall 
to fit under my grow lights.  I raised my lights as high as they can go 
but they still all up in the lights.

Thanks much.  I like this better.

Dale

:-)  :-)