Re: Flow flaws

[Mark Flacy <mflacy1 comcast net>]

On 2006.05.09 09:51, Mark Flacy wrote:
> 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.

Hmm.  Not bad at all.

It must be the source of all evil, MicroSoft Outlook, which screws up  
my work e-mails to the point of head-pounding bad text formatting.

I was wrong.  Sorry.