Re: Email line length

Nigel Allen <[email protected]> Thu, 10 Jul 2014 13:20:38 +1000
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.slug.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
What client are you using Peter?

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On 10/07/14 11:30, [email protected] wrote:
> Hi Folks,.
>     I'm seeing more and more emails
>     Content-Tyoe: text/plain charset="Windows-1252"
>     Content-Transfer-encoding: quoted-printable
>
>     that have incredibly long lines.  There is no `format=flowed' in that
>     content-type.  I can of course word-wrap, but that breaks quo/ting, and
>     it's a bit difficulty to swap between turning it on and off -- and
>     I get patches throught the email that should definitely not be
>     wrapped.
>
>     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'?
>
>     Or should I give up, and change my email client to word-wrap
>     somewhere sensible, and attempt to turn that off for emails where
>     plain text formatting is important?
>
> Peter C

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