From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 11 14:40:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from akira.lanfear.com (akira.lanfear.com [208.12.11.174]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D55037B718 for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 14:40:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwlist@lanfear.com) Received: from sapporo.lanfear.com (h-64-105-36-216.snvacaid.covad.net [64.105.36.216]) by akira.lanfear.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA82628; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 14:40:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwlist@lanfear.com) Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 14:40:06 -0800 (PST) From: Marc W Message-Id: <200103112240.OAA82628@akira.lanfear.com> To: Mike Meyer , Greg Lehey Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: best x11 mua ? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Mailer: Kiltdown 0.7 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > ----------------------------- > From: Mike Meyer > To: Greg Lehey > Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > {snip} > > Ok, I've got a question about that one. It would seem that the > prohibition about mailers automatically wrapping text should apply to > quoted text as well, for much the same reason - you could potentially > lose information in the process. > > Here, you seem to be implying that kiltdown ("it") should have done > just that. Is that really the case? There definitely is a problem with assuming the text is flowed, and that is when the user has formatted the text using spaces and the like. by telling the formatter to just go and force a flowed-text style, you definitely could cause some ugliness here, but would solve the 80% case where text is just flowed ... mailers like outlook express try to get around this by just limiting text lines to 72 characters, so that you can theoretically reply to a couple of messages without ugly wrapping (assuming everybody uses oe). unfortunately, not many other mailers do this. there seems to be pretty inconsistent use of the Content-Type keyword format='flowed', which would definitely help here some too. i think the answer is to just let the user decide -- give them a checkbox they can flip between or something like that ... blech. marc. Marc W, San Francisco, CA Kiltdown -- a free email client for X www.kiltdown.org -- it's what's underneath that counts. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message