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

[George Reeke <reeke mail rockefeller edu>]

Just to add to this discussion, as one who also would like to see
word wrap implemented in the preview window:

I discovered that when an email comes in where the whole message is on
one or a few long lines, I can hit the Reply button.  This brings up a
version that is word wrapped.  I can read it, then cancel the reply.

This is entirely illogical and I hope the developers will note that
if they can wrap on a reply, they can certainly treat incoming the
same way.

Thanks,
George Reeke


On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 23:58 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 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
>
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