>>I hate it extremly when an automatic rule breaks my text apart, >>especially when I cannot inspect the result myself. This is like being >>censored! >> >>I was recently sending an EMail >>where I wrote an Email adress like [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >>Powermail broke it apart like this: first- >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >>Thats VERY annyoing! Many of the recipient used the truncated address. > >That's why PowerMail automatically puts angle brackets around e-mail >addresses and urls that are copied in -- so when the text breaks, the >mail client can still figure out that the whole thing is one piece, e.g. ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | <http://www.ctmdev.com/>. Drag it from >your address book, make a text clipping with the brackets preset, type it >copy then paste -- all these things will make sure you have the brackets >in there.
I agree, with these brackets this special problem would not happen. But as you see some lines above PM seems not to add these brackets automatically. My examples are without them! > >The problem is, even if PowerMail doesn't chop it up, it could happen >later on before delivery, depending on what kind of server it goes >through. This is the crucial point: _you can't control it!!!_ Yes, it is >annoying, but 78 characters is the longest safe length. Honestly I do not experience this. The overwhelming majority of mails I receive have no hard wrap, I could not recognize a single message which was hardwrapped just now when I was inspecting my mailbox with random sample checks. > >For PM to constrain your typing to 78 characters/line so you can see when >the breaks will be is the closest you'll get to visual inspection before >sending. I suppose that might be a feature to add. If you don't use a >fixed width font or if you've resized the mail message window it's >difficult to see where that will happen. > >I can see having a variable to set things shorter. If the mail clients in >question don't automatically rewrap quotes, it might be advantageous to >set the line length a bit shorter expecting it to be quoted, e.g. > >>>>>> > >> So a snippet of text could be quoted several times before this >>>>>> > >> happens. >>>>>> > >> Surely someone has sent you pages and pages of old internet jokes >>>>>> > >> that were >>>>>> > >> funny the first time around, but now should really be retired. >>>>>> > >> Such text >>>>>> > >> becomes intolerable to read. :) > >But trying to set it longer is just begging for frustration. > >(Quote rewrapping can be done in PowerMail through AppleScript (in itself >or by transfer to apps like BBEdit, TextSoap and the like). Including >such capability in PowerMail, natively as it were, has also been >suggested -- not nearly as much as including spellchecking... before PM >tapped into OS X's services. augh--I'm dating myself ;) just FYI.) My wish is quite easy and leaves the decision to the user and he has to ponderate which disadvantage he judges higher: PM shall offer an option if the text shall be hardwrapped or not. That should be simple to realize. Urs
