On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 12:19:37PM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 03:57:05 +0100, > Arno Wagner <wagner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > First a side-note: Do you know that text can be formatted and that it > > is still the norm to have no text after around the 72 column-mark or > > so? > > As a followup to this point, using the format=flowed option for the content > type is also acceptable. Viewers should then break lines at appropiate places. > This actually works better for viewers that understand format=flowed than > putting in breaks at a fixed column yourself. I definitely do not remember seeing that in RFC822 or RFC2822 and my viwer (less and emacs for editing) does not support it. Is this a MIME option? If so, then a MIME wrapper is also needed. Or is this some "HTML-body without proper encapsulation" thing? Looking for "format=flowed", led me to RFC2646 (which incidentially mentions "hotile user reaction at the receiving end" when using other things than preformatted text in email). It does also mention a phenomenon called "embarrassing line breaks" when using more than 80 columns. RFC2646 says that "flowed" SHOULD not go past the 79 column mark when viewed without reformatting and seems to indicate that "flowed" is a parameter-option to the MIME type Text/Plain. In that case, proper MIME encapsulation is needed AFAIK. It is certainly needed or at last the 80 column limit needs to be respected for me or it will trigger the "hostile user reaction at the receiving end". Sorry to nit-pick, but I had rather significant problems reading the original problem description and the problem does sound interesting. Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dipl. Inform., CISSP --- CSG, ETH Zurich, arno@xxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier --------------------------------------------------------------------- dm-crypt mailing list - http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: dm-crypt-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: dm-crypt-help@xxxxxxxx
