| Re: "wordwrap" in messages sent to mailman list [message #26586 is a reply to message #26566] |
Thu, 28 July 2005 05:42   |
tymp
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| Ilia wrote on Wed, 27 July 2005 09:12 |
The forum tries to keep the body of the message as close to the original as possible, that means not wrapping it unless absolutely necessary.
If a mail client is too dump to wrap very long lines on spaces, then I'd say it is a mail client issue.
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Well, i think it is really a web issue with pipermail. It should not allow long lines to cause vertical scroll in the html interface.
However, most messages that end up there get 'wrapped', by mail clients such as outlook, thunderbird, gmail, or whatever is doing it. I don't really know where this wrapping usually happens, just that all the messages with long lines that went from fudforum to the mailman lists were causing vertical scroll. (There is one person on our mailman lists whose messages are doing this too.. i need to ask her what mail interface she's using...)
Wordwrap()-ing the message body resolves this problem; it seems to duplicate a common feature in 'mail clients'. ... isn't fudforum the mail client in this situation?
At least, maybe this is an issue for future consideration... Seems like this ml<->forum integration is a relatively new science, so who knows...
Anyhow, I'm happy with the hack solution. Thanks for making this FUDforum thing so that i have something to complain about!!
(btw, what is the FUD short for? 'fear uncertainty and doubt'? i think not!)
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