[imp] wordwrap message lines at 72

Michael M Slusarz slusarz at horde.org
Sat Nov 8 23:54:09 UTC 2008


Quoting Andrea Zagli <azagli at libero.it>:

> Il giorno ven 07 nov 2008 19:57:46 CET, Michael M Slusarz ha scritto:
>
>> Quoting Andrea Zagli <azagli at libero.it>:
>>
>>> is there a way to wordwrap message lines on message composing (or  
>>> automatically on sending) to the 72th character?
>>
>> Why 72?  IMP already wraps body text at 76 characters IIRC.
>
> 72 because i didn't remember what the standard is :-)
>
> textarea in composition wraps at 76, but when i view the message  
> sent it isn't wrapped (as this message)... i must manually insert  
> carriage return; is ther an option that do this automatically?

That's because the message is sent in flowed format.  Flowed messages  
don't wrap within a paragraph on display.

If you view the message source, you will see that the text is wrapped  
at 76 characters.

michael

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