Re: [Evolution] Word Wraping in Message Verticail Preview (Side-bySide)??

["Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 17:16 -0500, Saikat Guha wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 17:51 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > > This is a FAQ and AFAIK you can't do it. The wrap boundary appears to be
> > > > hardwired at 70 characters, which apparently is inscribed in some
> > > > standard or other.
> > >
> > > If it's a FAQ, can someone please tell me which "standard" this is?
> >
> > > From RFC-2822 (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html):
> >
> > "2.1.1. Line Length Limits
> >
> >    There are two limits that this standard places on the number of
> >    characters in a line. Each line of characters MUST be no more than
> >    998 characters, and SHOULD be no more than 78 characters, excluding
> >    the CRLF."
>
> The RFC linked does NOT apply. From the RFC:
>
> 1.1. Scope
>     ...
>         Note: This standard is not intended to dictate the internal
>         formats
>         used by sites, the specific message system features that they are
>         expected to support, or *any of the characteristics of user interface
>         programs that create or read messages*. 
>         
> (emphasis added)
>
> There is nothing that requires a mailer to *display* messages
> hard-wrapped at n characters. The RFC linked only applies to
> messages on the wire so to speak.

Fair enough.

> Back to the OP's question:
>   Why does evolution not have a re-wrap feature?

I've no idea. I'm not a developer of Evo, but this question has been
asked before on the list and the answer has been along the lines I've
already mentioned (but evidently based on some other standards doc than
RFC-2822), thus my use of the terms "AFAIK" and "apparently".

poc