Sorry, but...
this format=flowed is killing me. Whenever I'm testing something, I'm running against another wall.
Look at my previous message: Some of the dashed lines above and below the quoted paragraphs do not start at the beginning of the line (as I entered them in the plain text editor), but three positions later. Screenshot attached.
First I thought the lines were indented, but then it appeared to me that the first three dashes have been replaced with spaces - either in the display or in the message source itself upon sending.
What I found:
- It happens only with format=flowed
- 8bit or qp don't make a difference
- line length MAY play a role, but I'm not sure
- The quote level needs to be > 1
Apart from the screenshot, the following files are attached:
- the original text as being entered in the editor (message.txt)
- the message sources as being sent in all variations (message [*].src) (just the relevant body part, without headers and signature)
The format of the flowed messages does look really strange, the qp versions even more than the 8bit versions. Even if this behaviour should be deliberate (which I honestly doubt), then the qp encoding does look insane to me. But that's again a different issue, then.
I wasn't able to dig any deeper, but I hope this analysis may help already.
And I'm wondering: Am I really the only one seeing those kind of things...? I mean, the most relevant task of any MUA is displaying, composing and replying to (= quoting) messages. ;-)
Usually, I'm not using format=flowed, now I'm even more convinced to stick to this position...
Cheers,
Michael Heydekamp Co-Admin freexp.de Düsseldorf/Germany
