[imp] wordwrap message lines at 72

[Tim Bannister]

> Zitat von Andrea Zagli <azagli at libero.it>:
>>>> but why imp show me the queted part of the message correctly  
>>>> wrapped and what i wrote not? (in evolution i see the whole email  
>>>> correctly)
>>
>> for example, when i display in imp a mail that i sent from imp in  
>> reply to other mail, i see the quoted part of the mail wrapped,  
>> while i see the part that i wrote not wrapped
>
> I agree that this is irritating and I still didn't get used to it. I  
> guess this happens if the original, now quoted, text was not flowed,  
> while the newer part is. So the old part is hard wrapped, and the  
> flowed part is, well, flowing.
>
> I find it easier to read the way we do it in Whups, and like we used  
> to do it in IMP, i.e. wrap at 76, even with flowed text. Of course  
> this causes problems if those lines don't fit into the window,  
> because of small screens etc. Maybe we could use a max-width CSS  
> layer for wrapping instead?

It doesn't have to be 76. I think IMP 4.1 used to reflow messages for  
me (compared to the original, flowed format wrapping). It's a good  
idea to have a wrap width, but ideally this would be a user preference  
(and maybe another for whether to do this at all).

--
Tim Bannister
Email system administrator
IT Services division
The University of Manchester

w: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/itservices