On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 01:42:49AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: | On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 01:14:52 -0700 | Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 10:01:47AM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote: | > > And kmail has one major advantage: I can read mails | > > with over-long lines without problems...
mutt can use whatever pager you choose for displaying mails. It's up to your pager to display content nicely. The pager I am currently using, in its current setup, doesn't do the best job of automatic line wrapping for display, but that's my choice to use this pager. | > So can mutt, but the ultimate solution is to tell your correspondants | > not to send email in a retarded manner. For prose and the like, this is the best action. | http://jobsearch.monster.com/getjob.asp?JobID=18496386&AVSDM=2003%2D07%2D16+00%3A13%3A00&CCD=my%2Emonster%2Ecom&JSD=jobsearch%2Emonster%2Ecom&HD=company%2Emonster%2Ecom&AD=http%3A%2F%2Fjobsearch%2Emonster%2Ecom%2Fjobsearch%2Easp%3Fbrd%3D1%2C1862%2C1863%26lid%3D316%26fn%3D543%26fn%3D6%26fn%3D660%26fn%3D554%26jt%3D2%26q%3D%26tm%3D%26cy%3DUS%26sq%3D%26col%3Ddltci&Logo=1&col=dltci&cy=US&brd=1%2C1862%2C1863&lid=316&fn=543%2C+6%2C+660%2C+554&q= | | How is that in a retarded manner? Breaking up that line would mean the | end user would need to piece it back together. :P This sub-thread also brings up the issue of really broken software. I've received some emails in the past where a paragraph didn't include any line breaks, and the line was truncated at around 1000 characters. Any function MUA will ensure that the "physical" lines sent through the transport has fewer than 1000 characters. Note that this doesn't change the message itself, only the encoding. Additionally, a robust MTA that follows Jon Postel's "be liberal in what you accept and strict in what you send" policy will re-encode any invalid messages so as to ensure no loss of data later in the pipeline (postfix does this) even though the other MTAs are not incorrect in truncating excessively long lines. -D -- Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is found in those who take advice. Proverbs 13:10 http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/
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