>Well, that's not entirely true. Emailer will wrap quoted lines once >they exceed a certain length. Unfortunately, Emailer doesn't reproduce >the quotation marks (">") from the previous line to the new line, so >quoted text may appear "chopped" afterwards.
The quote chopping refered to in the message implied a first level chopping.
The original poster didn't provide an actual sample of the text that had prompted the complaint from his recipients, but rather had fabricated an example based on his understanding of the problem. While your reply was dead-on accurate for that example, I just wanted to mention other possibilities in case the original poster had misunderstood the problem or hadn't described it accurately.
2: Emailer CAN cause a chopping like seen, as will many many many other email clients, on quoted text. This is because the line has already been broken, and now shifted and broken again. If this is done enough, there will become extra breaks, and line will end up being chopped up. This is done on send, not on receive. So if you receive an email that looks like this, it wasn't done by Emailer, it was done by one (or more) of the previous senders.
That's not entirely correct. If *you* are one of the previous senders, it may have been Emailer that caused the chopping. Since, as you pointed out, Emailer doesn't perform line wrapping until after you have sent the message, any chopping that occurred wouldn't become apparent until someone quoted the message back to you in a reply.
HOWEVER, remember... HTML ignores white space and line breaks. So the underlying HTML code for that quoted text may be chopped to bits and it will all properly rewrap and look pretty when rendered. So an HTML client really need not worry about making sure text is wrapped nicely, as the HTML renderer will do that automatically when displaying the text.
Yes, you are correct about the HTML version of the message possibly being chopped to bits. However, I believe the text is sometimes reformatted when the HTML is "dumbed down" for the text-only version of the message.
And going by the forwards I get, I would have to say that either a HUGE number of people use Emailer (including a large percentage of Windows users), or just about every email client out there does a piss poor job of flowing the text nicely. I get forwards on a daily basis that have most of their lines chopped up. So clearly many other email clients also do this to text.
That's probably true. However, I'm just trying to provide possible explanations as to how Emailer could have caused a similar problem in the original poster's case, as well as speculating on why the recipient who voiced the complaint to the original poster may not be accustomed to seeing this problem from certain other email clients.
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