On 10/20/2000 12:45 PM, "Jim Baskins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 10/20/00 1:36 PM, Dan Crevier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> On 10/20/2000 11:09 AM, "Allen Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> One of the aspects of OE that I had hoped would be fixed in Entourage has
>>> not been fixed, apparently.
>>>
>>> Both programs impose word wrapping on the mail user whether he or she wants
>>> it or not. You cannot send a mail message in plain text without word
>>> wrapping. What's more, you cannot <receive> a message in plain text that
>>> isn't word wrapped without OE or Entourage invasively wrapping it.
>>
>> Can you give an example of a message getting word wrapped when it's
>> received? I don't believe this is true.
>
> I have to agree with Dan here, Entourage (and OE) soft-wraps unwrapped
> received mail to your window width, I often receive this type of mail on
> other lists from Eudora and Windows clients. However, not to obscure Allen's
> main point, I agree with him that there should be a way to send unwrapped
> plain text mail from Entourage/OE. There *are* situations such as Allen
> described when the user should be able to select "Unwrap outgoing Message",
> standard compliance would then be served except in situations that a user
> decided that compromising this "standard" would serve his needs best. Is
> this one of those vague standards open to interpretation, or are you saying
> that OE/Rage is the one of the only [modern] clients that observes it?
>
> Thanks Allen, for bringing this up. May get us nowhere but it needs to be
> heard.
There are people who don't agree with my interpretation of the standards,
but when I first researched this issue, the consensus in the MIME newsgroup
is that text/plain *must* be hard wrapped at 80 columns. I don't know of
any modern email clients that break this standard, although Mailsmith
optionally allows you to not wrap lines if I remember correctly. Eudora
uses format=flowed, which does not violate the standards.
Dan
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