>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. 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. 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.) Chris --
