Re: Unwrapping mail
Re: Unwrapping mail
- Subject: Re: Unwrapping mail
- From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 19:51:51 -0600
At 16:25 -0700 7/29/06, Michelle Steiner wrote:
>There is no convenient way to unwrap text in email. Mail softwraps text in outgoing messages, but many servers, list servers, and clients convert them to hard wrapped text.
It's not just who does what to line ends in mail these days.
AppleMail is frustrating me because it splits long URL' using a peculiar interpretation of format-flowed which uses quoted-printable and = signs with spaces at line ends to avoid distortion by mail transfer agents (MTA) along the way. Those clients and servers of which you speak may be "confused" by Apple's format-flowed which seems to introduce extra spaces. Perhaps it's "soft wrapping" to Apple standards rather than "real" format-flowed which has an RFC.
I find that just letting lines (er paragraphs) be long is quite reliable with the MTAs that actually seem to be in use these days. But Apple's mail.app won't do that. This epistle comes from Eudora which doesn't seem to mind. It should wrap to your screen width even if you change the font size.
So I have a script that goes directly to my SMTP server and takes advantage of the limit of 998 characters per line (plus a net \r\n return) to be transmitted through compliant MTAs. No mail client involved.
Yeah, it's almost all in perl but it does have an Applescript application as glue to make it work without a visible shell. Scratch my back and I'll document and post it after removing built-in passwords.
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