Michael, thanks for sharing that experience. Sometimes clients do it
well, sometimes they don't. I've played with Thunderbird, and it only
passes the first part of a broken URL to Safari. A friend's mail.app did
the same with a broken URL I sent.
From what I can see, the lowest common denominator
Bill Courington sez:
Yes, PM is good about handling incoming URLs, even if they span a line
break. According to the friend who started this ;-) mail.app apparently
is not good at the same thing. Neither is Thunderbird (I checked).
Bill
For what it's worth, I forwarded the original message to
Some correspondents complain that a message from me containing a long
URL arrives with a linefeed breaking it into two lines. Clicking the
link in their mail client then does not work.
Here's an example: http://www.google.com/search?
client=safarirls=enq=18+point+angle+stop+handleie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8
It's a function of the email client that receives it.
By the way, your example URL works just fine with a click in PowerMail
-- even though the line is broken.
Some email clients are good, some or not so good.
Richard Hart
Bill Courington wrote:
Some correspondents complain that a message
Bill Courington wrote:
I'm trying to figure out if PM or my ISP is breaking long lines.
It's PM breaking the line. CTM argued that this is what the relevant RFC
requests.
Regards, Christian.
on Wed, Feb 27, 2008 PowerMail discussions may have said:
Here's an example: http://www.google.com/search?
client=safarirls=enq=18+point+angle+stop+handleie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8
a) breaking lines is a format of the email reader in most cases
(typically based on a # of chars) although some sending
Thank you Christian.
The evidence is a little murky. The basic email RFC 2822 recommends 78-
character message lines, but does not require them. Its rationale says
that clients that handle longer lines badly do not conform to the intent
of the spec.
RFC 2646 Text/Plain media type is also
Yes, PM is good about handling incoming URLs, even if they span a line
break. According to the friend who started this ;-) mail.app apparently
is not good at the same thing. Neither is Thunderbird (I checked).
Bill
on Wed, Feb 27, 2008 PowerMail discussions may have said:
Here's an example:
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