Re: Consecutive spaces not displayed in some cases

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Earl Hood <earl-kgk2VSi+Fo9Wk0Htik3J/[email protected]> wrote:
> On March 27, 2005 at 12:43, Jeff Breidenbach wrote:
> 
>> > d) use the m2h_text_plain::filter disableflowed setting
>> 
>> Ok. I've disabled reflow on rsync-w/[email protected] as a guinea pig.
>> John, please monitor new messages to the list for a few weeks and let
>> me know how it works out. If there are no bad side effects, we can
>> consider a site-wide configuration change.

Thanks.  I'm on that list, and I'm now saving all its email (with the
help of procmail) so I'll have the originals complete with headers to
compare with the archive.

> The format=flowed setting in email messages have well-defined
> semantics, and mhonarc (more specifically, the m2h_text_plain::filter
> filter) tries to follow the RFC as best as it can.   Therefore, either
> the messages are mis-tagged as flowed or there is a bug in the
> filtering code.

I'm quite certain that the user who sent that message did not intend it to
be tagged as flowed, but his email client probably uses that as a default.
Most people (understandably) don't want to deal with all the intricacies
of modern email and use whatever defaults are provided.

But if mhonarc reflows long lines in normal plain text and uses <pre>
(when it could have allowed it to flow), it seems to be consistent to do
the same with (supposedly) flowed text.
-- 
        John Van Essen  Univ of Minn. Alumnus  <[email protected]>


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