Re: [Evolution] What's going on with line wraps

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

We dont read rtf natively, so something else is doing the html
translation (or sending it as text that we translate to html).  i.e.
outlook or exchange.

I suggest creating a bug on bugzilla.ximian.com and attaching an example
message - even if it just gets closed with 'not our problem' :)

 Michael

On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 00:33, Ian Perryman wrote:
> Hi am relatively new to evolution, but I like it a lot so far.  I could
> not find this topic in the archives nor FAQ.
> 
> I am working in an organization that is almost entirely Windoze based. 
> Most people are using Outlook in a native windoze 2000 environment.  
> 
> I am running RH8.0, now with Evolution 1.4 obtained with red-carpet. I
> use Evolution to connect to the exchange server using imap.  I also have
> vmware running win2k which I use mostly for running Outlook Calendar (I
> know I should try Ximian connector ... one day I will).  I often have
> both outlook (inside vmware) running simultaneously with Evolution
> running natively.  Both are pointed at the same set of email on the
> exchange server.  
> 
> Anyway, most people use the default settings in Outlook to send messages
> in rich text format (RTF).  
> 
> One thing that has been annoying me is that the message upon receipt has
> all of the paragraphs chopped up into individual lines each about 70
> chars long.   This process does not seem handle long url's well. 
> Usually, long urls get mangled, and I cannot use the message to hop to
> the url directly. 
> 
> I have tested this and it happens even if I create the message in
> outlook (in vmware) and save it to my drafts folder, and then view it
> from evolution.  That is the message is never really "sent", only saved.
> 
> I would have thought there would be some form of RTF to HTML mapping
> that would allow the message to be handled "nicely" so that line breaks
> would not be required. 
> 
> As far as I can tell there is no control for how to handle received
> messages.   Is there a setting somewhere that I am missing?
> 
> Regards,
> Ian Perryman
> Ottawa Technology Center
> Altera Corporation.
> 
> 
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