On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 22:54:33 +0100, Arno Wagner <wagner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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? Yes, it is part of MIME not email as such. > 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". I forgot that you could use continuation lines as well, and that is a good idea. Usually that's all handled for you by the email client. > Sorry to nit-pick, but I had rather significant problems reading the > original problem description and the problem does sound interesting. I can believe that. I hate html only email as I think html viewers are significantly more likely to have exploitable bugs than the builtin text viewer in an email client. I have also seen cases where the text/plain part corresponding to a text/html part in a multipart/alternative part had problems using incorrect character codes or other poor equivalence between the parts. Format=flowed is nice when you aren't using an 80 column output window. The lines get scaled to the actual width, which looks nicer. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
