What software do you use for mail/news?
I see all your messages are proudly well formatted and perfectly fit in
pages of 80 columns, while I have to push return each line. If i forget,
lines gets splitted in my window but then when i send it out i
see the big mistake...
is there any margins setting? I use icedove (thunderbird 3.0.11)
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On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 04:28 +0200, Davide Baldini wrote:
> What software do you use for mail/news?
> I see all your messages are proudly well formatted and perfectly fit in
> pages of 80 columns, while I have to push return each line. If i forget,
> lines gets splitted in my window but then when i send it out i
> see the big mistake...
>
> is there any margins setting? I use icedove (thunderbird 3.0.11)
You mean 72 characters/line? This doesn't work all the time, when
replying or coping something it can happen that I get never ending
lines. Usually people wish to get an auto-break after character 72.
I'm using Evolution, but to be honest, Mozillas are better Mailers, but
no native Linux mailers, anyway, also those mailers know the never
ending line issue.
I used several mailers, an eccentric extreme might be Wanderlust for
Emacs, for this mailer there never is a line issue, but well, I'm sure
you won't use Wanderlust.
Btw. take a look at the emails headers by viewing the source, usually
there is an entry for the mailer.
Perhaps you need to edit the preferences from 80 to 72 characters.
Hth,
Ralf
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06-13-2011, 03:34 AM
Ron Johnson
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On 06/12/2011 09:28 PM, Davide Baldini wrote:
What software do you use for mail/news?
I see all your messages are proudly well formatted and perfectly fit in
pages of 80 columns, while I have to push return each line. If i forget,
lines gets splitted in my window but then when i send it out i
see the big mistake...
There is no mistake. That's how it's supposed to work. Just type and
let it wrap at 72 columns.
If you still have questions, take a window print of what you think is a
mistake and throw it up on some website for us to see.
is there any margins setting? I use icedove (thunderbird 3.0.11)
I've been using ID/Tbird since at lease 2.0.
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This doesn't seem to be such a common/requested feature though nearly
everyone uses it in newsgroups.
On 06/13/11 05:05, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> I suspect you get something similar to this
>
> dummytextdummytextdumm ytext dummytextdummytextdumm ytext
>
> Right?
exactly
> Perhaps you need to edit the preferences from 80 to 72 characters.
Wish there was such an interface.... Anyway, I got it to auto fold at 72
regardless of window size, by this rare precious guide
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Fixed_width_messages
of which i copied here the main part to ease eventual researches and
reduce risk of server lost.
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Set fixed-width plain text on thunderbird and derived:
On the page Advanced – General, press the Config Editor... button. Set
the Filter to: flowed Set the following preference to the opposite of
its default (for example, by double-clicking it), so that the setting is:
mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed user set boolean false
Optionally set the other preference to the opposite of its default (for
example, by double-clicking it). If you do this, then messages that
other people send to you also appear to be fixed-width, even if the
person who sent the message intended it to flow:
mailnews.display.disable_format_flowed_support user set boolean true
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06-13-2011, 09:27 AM
Philipp Überbacher
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Excerpts from Davide Baldini's message of 2011-06-13 04:28:18 +0200:
> What software do you use for mail/news?
> I see all your messages are proudly well formatted and perfectly fit in
> pages of 80 columns, while I have to push return each line. If i forget,
> lines gets splitted in my window but then when i send it out i
> see the big mistake...
>
> is there any margins setting? I use icedove (thunderbird 3.0.11)
I use a CLI mailer (sup) and vim for text editing, so in my case it's
vim that does the line wrapping. If memory serves vim is told that what
it edits is a mail and behaves accordingly, but there certainly are
manual settings for this stuff too.
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06-13-2011, 01:37 PM
Camaleón
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On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 04:28:18 +0200, Davide Baldini wrote:
> What software do you use for mail/news? I see all your messages are
> proudly well formatted and perfectly fit in pages of 80 columns, while I
> have to push return each line. If i forget, lines gets splitted in my
> window but then when i send it out i see the big mistake...
I use Pan newsreader. But sometimes (e.g., with hyperlinks) when sending
messages I "force" a non line-break that may be rendered wrong in some
MUAs, dunno :-?
> is there any margins setting? I use icedove (thunderbird 3.0.11)
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06-13-2011, 01:37 PM
Camaleón
news/mail client and the text borders
On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 04:28:18 +0200, Davide Baldini wrote:
> What software do you use for mail/news? I see all your messages are
> proudly well formatted and perfectly fit in pages of 80 columns, while I
> have to push return each line. If i forget, lines gets splitted in my
> window but then when i send it out i see the big mistake...
I use Pan newsreader. But sometimes (e.g., with hyperlinks) when sending
messages I "force" a non line-break that may be rendered wrong in some
MUAs, dunno :-?
> is there any margins setting? I use icedove (thunderbird 3.0.11)
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06-13-2011, 01:50 PM
Chris Brennan
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* Philipp ??berbacher <hollunder@lavabit.com> [2011-06-13 11:27:57 +0200]:
> Excerpts from Davide Baldini's message of 2011-06-13 04:28:18 +0200:
> > What software do you use for mail/news?
> > I see all your messages are proudly well formatted and perfectly fit in
> > pages of 80 columns, while I have to push return each line. If i forget,
> > lines gets splitted in my window but then when i send it out i
> > see the big mistake...
> >
> > is there any margins setting? I use icedove (thunderbird 3.0.11)
>
> I use a CLI mailer (sup) and vim for text editing, so in my case it's
> vim that does the line wrapping. If memory serves vim is told that what
> it edits is a mail and behaves accordingly, but there certainly are
> manual settings for this stuff too.
I'm a mutt user and vim is my editor of choice, if that's the route you
would like to go then the following will make your life somewhat easier.
chris@stewie.xaerolimit.net:~$ cat .vim/after/ftplugin/mail.vim
syntax on
setlocal wrap
setlocal textwidth=72
" do text=flowed wrapping
setlocal formatoptions+=wr
setlocal formatoptions-=l
" don't autoindent or smartindent, as that just adds weird spaces into
the
" middle of flowed text paragraphs
setlocal noautoindent nosmartindent
setlocal nopaste
chris@stewie.xaerolimit.net:~$
This is what vim reads when I reply to and/or compose mail to some one.
If you really want to jump into mutt, I would suggest subscribing to the
mutt-users mailing list as well and I can share my mutt configuration
(as can others) to help you along.
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> >Q: Are you sure?
> >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
> >>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon?
>s http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/
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06-13-2011, 01:50 PM
Chris Brennan
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* Philipp ??berbacher <hollunder@lavabit.com> [2011-06-13 11:27:57 +0200]:
> Excerpts from Davide Baldini's message of 2011-06-13 04:28:18 +0200:
> > What software do you use for mail/news?
> > I see all your messages are proudly well formatted and perfectly fit in
> > pages of 80 columns, while I have to push return each line. If i forget,
> > lines gets splitted in my window but then when i send it out i
> > see the big mistake...
> >
> > is there any margins setting? I use icedove (thunderbird 3.0.11)
>
> I use a CLI mailer (sup) and vim for text editing, so in my case it's
> vim that does the line wrapping. If memory serves vim is told that what
> it edits is a mail and behaves accordingly, but there certainly are
> manual settings for this stuff too.
I'm a mutt user and vim is my editor of choice, if that's the route you
would like to go then the following will make your life somewhat easier.
chris@stewie.xaerolimit.net:~$ cat .vim/after/ftplugin/mail.vim
syntax on
setlocal wrap
setlocal textwidth=72
" do text=flowed wrapping
setlocal formatoptions+=wr
setlocal formatoptions-=l
" don't autoindent or smartindent, as that just adds weird spaces into
the
" middle of flowed text paragraphs
setlocal noautoindent nosmartindent
setlocal nopaste
chris@stewie.xaerolimit.net:~$
This is what vim reads when I reply to and/or compose mail to some one.
If you really want to jump into mutt, I would suggest subscribing to the
mutt-users mailing list as well and I can share my mutt configuration
(as can others) to help you along.
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> >Q: Are you sure?
> >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
> >>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon?
>s http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/
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06-13-2011, 02:02 PM
Davide Baldini
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On 06/13/11 15:37, Camaleón wrote:
> This doc covers both of them:
>
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:_FAQs_:_Viewing_Headers
>
> Greetings,
>
Oh thanks that's guide is much helpful. Anyway, i found the margin
setting as told earlier.
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