Re: [Evolution] URL formatting annoyance

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

On Wed, 2017-04-12 at 12:07 -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote:
> Some years ago I had an older version of Evolution which automatically
> detected URLs in a plain text message and basically made them preformat
> ted so as not to break them and make them un-clickable on the receiving
> end. This sometimes made for ugly text, but it _worked_! Newer versions
> of Evolution will break a URL arbitrarily, willy-nilly in plain text
> mode - which is useless - and I have to manually insert a line break
> for each line with a long URL and make it preformatted, a bit of a
> PITA. Is there any way to get back to the old behavior?
There are few bugs in bugzilla about it - for instance 

  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=757504

So it's known about.

BTW, it's difficult to determine what you mean by "new" or "newer"
without the version of Evolution you are using.

P.