From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 18 11:38:33 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D8B616A4CE for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 11:38:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from destiny.chrononomicon.com (mail.chrononomicon.com [65.193.73.208]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11F0743D2F for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 11:38:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsilver@chrononomicon.com) Received: from [IPv6:::1] (destiny.chrononomicon.com [192.168.1.42]) by destiny.chrononomicon.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B99871FDFF for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 14:38:12 -0500 (EST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v613) In-Reply-To: <20040317224523.GB70257@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20040317224523.GB70257@xor.obsecurity.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Bart Silverstrim Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 14:38:11 -0500 To: FreeBSD-questions Mailing List X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.613) Subject: Mail readers (was: Re: Portupgrade troubles, interactive ports) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 19:38:33 -0000 On Mar 17, 2004, at 5:45 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: > 1) Please wrap your lines at 70 characters so your emails may be > easily read. > I'm using Mail.app on OS X 10.3.3, and someone offering some advice from this list also asked me to fix line wrapping. I checked and checked, but found nothing in Mail that allows a "wrapping" unless it's done manually. I went to the MacOSX admin mailing list and asked there. They said that the problem is that when Mail.app sends as "text" (I avoid whenever possible sending html or rich text stuff through email...if it's good enough for telnet, it's good enough for me! :-) the format is "flow" (format = flowed), and pointed me to http://www.joeclark.org/ffaq.html for some information. From what I understood the problem isn't Mail.app, it was a MUA that isn't correctly reading format=flowed Out of curiosity, what email program are you using that it's not showing up? I thought the FAQ said that many term emailers support the flowed format...essentially my hitting "enter" at the end of each line is making it more difficult for the format=flowed-speaking- mailers to correctly format my email for quoting, etc... Suggestions? I'm not trying to start any kind of religious MUA war or anything like that, just asking for honest opinion on "best practices"...