[BUGS] Why is my mail being horribly newlined?

[Sam Lawrance]

On 14/12/2007, at 6:29 AM, Jerahmy Pocott wrote:

> On 13/12/2007, at 10:54 PM, Callum Gibson wrote:
>
>> You appear to be using Apple Mail. Are you entering any newlines
>> when you type such as in the paragraph below? ie. did you press Enter
>> after "manager,", "tools", "system"? Or are you just letting Apple
>> Mail
>> auto-wrap it for you in the compose new message window?
>
> Yes, I put my own end of lines after those words. My thoughts are that
> it's either the text encoding used (apple likes UTF-8) or the newline
> character, traditionally Macs used <CR> though I'm fairly sure the
> default is now the unix <LF>, unless it's trying to be windows  
> friendly
> and placing <CR>/<LF>..
>
> I don't believe the mail client enforces any wrapping..
>
> I thought maybe it was the mail server doing it..

Pick the message in your sent folder and hit command-option-U to see  
the raw message.  Apple Mail uses "flowed" format messages - there  
are probably newlines inserted in addition to the ones you entered,  
which are used to wrap the text to some limit eg. 72 characters.  You  
don't see this when composing - clients that support it should see  
long, wrapped paragraphs and clients that don't should see the raw  
text wrapped to the limit.

Mailman probably doesn't support flowed format and sends the plain  
text on verbatim.