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Date:      04 Oct 2003 21:18:49 -0400
From:      Mailing Lists Catcher <freebsd@kibserv.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mail format problems
Message-ID:  <1065316729.850.37.camel@butters>
In-Reply-To: <20031004232259.GT45668@wantadilla.lemis.com>
References:  <20031004083007.GF45668@wantadilla.lemis.com> <41617EBD-F691-11D7-A2AE-000393A364C4@megapathdsl.net> <20031004232259.GT45668@wantadilla.lemis.com>

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If you don't mind me budding in to this thread....I am trying out a new
email client for Gnome and am not certain how the messages are going to
look.

It was the only Gnome port I could find that had SMTP Auth so I decided
to use it since my email server now requires I send a password to send
email.  It's called Evolution and it seems to be modeled after Outlook
and am hoping the messages are not sent as badly.

Reply with any problems you see and suggestions.  I don't think there
are any issues but I would rather find out now rather than later when I
need help and no one can read my questions.

Thanks
Jason Cribbins

On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 19:22, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Saturday,  4 October 2003 at 10:36:15 -0700, aarong wrote:
> >
> > On Saturday, October 4, 2003, at 01:30  AM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> >
> >> [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html]
> >>
> >> Computer output unwrapped.
> >
> > Having seen that message in many of your replies on the lists, I went
> > out of my way to make sure Mail.app (the OS X mailer) would send
> > messages text/plain and nothing else. Upon further examination of my
> > headers it seems it's adding some 'format=flowed' business to the
> > Content-Type. I can't find a work around; perhaps a look at Entourage
> > is in order.
> 
> The format=flowed is benign.  It just tells the receiving MUA to wrap
> text where appropriate.  The text line lengths are already correct.
> The problem is that computer output *shouldn't* be wrapped, and that's
> what your MUA is doing.  It may be a limitation of an MUA which
> insists on reformatting for you.  If you find a way of fixing it,
> please let me know and I'll add it to my pages at
> http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html.
> 
> I'll answer the technical question separately.
> 
> Greg
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