[BUGS] Why is my mail being horribly newlined?

Jerahmy Pocott quakenet1 at optusnet.com.au
Fri Dec 14 07:11:12 EST 2007


On 14/12/2007, at 7:03 AM, Sam Lawrance wrote:

> 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.

Yes, I see. So only clients that support flowed format actually
see the message how I composed it..

Of course so long as I keep my lines below the wrap limit
it looks fine..

Is there any way to disable using flowed format?

Thanks!


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