Re: Flow flaws

[Mark Flacy <mflacy1 comcast net>]

On 2006.05.09 09:01, Mişu Moldovan wrote:
>

[snip]

> Balsa by default inserts in the messages that it creates at the end  
> of every line an " =20" expression. That seems to be a "hard wrap"  
> that mail clients use it to always wrap lines whenever they bump  
> into it. However, some clients insert in the mails they generate  
> just a "soft wrap" consisting only of one "=" which make the mail  
> clients wrap lines more liberally, expanding lines to the entire  
> width of the available space in the current view. I would also  
> prefer the "soft wrap", it seems so much better, why isn't it  
> enabled by default?

Well, the "Format=Flowed" declaration in the header resulted in a  
perfect re-wrap of your e-mail.

Of course, when you *do* set "Format=Flowed", you cannot send any  
preformatted ascii tables or block indented paragraphs.

> Re-wrapping an indented reply is such a pain in the butt sometimes,  
> even with the "select the whole reply and rewrap" solution.  
> Multiple spaces appear when doing that and most of the times I end  
> up re-wrapping it by hand. Arggghhh... How do the other mailers do  
> it?

I really hate to say it, but Balsa absolutely sucks in its handling  
of quoted text.  I should reply to this message just to show how bad  
it can be.