I've been evaluating roundcube for a while now, and just this morning installed the latest CVS version for testing. I much prefer the look to squirrelmail, my current deployed webmail system.
Anyways I quite a fan of format=flowed in outbound email, as it makes it easier for everyone to read mail. For those who use an 80 character console (like me) the mail shows up correctly, and for those who use graphical mailers like Thunderbird or Mail.app get the benefit of automatic line wrapping rather than having fixed length fields in a large application window.
I was wondering if there was any plan to send mail using flowed formatting. If not, I would like to request that it be considered. If so, that's great news.
I plan to look at some of the code later, maybe I can make some changes myself, but I'm not always that good with coding.
Steve Block wrote:
Anyways I quite a fan of format=flowed in outbound email...
I was wondering if there was any plan to send mail using flowed formatting.
This is something that should absolutely be looked at, yes! The current code is provably capable of breaking at least one SHOULD, and probably capable of breaking a MUST, in RFC2822:
<blockquote cite="http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html"> 2.1.1. Line Length Limits
There are two limits that this standard places on the number of
characters in a line. Each line of characters MUST be no more than
998 characters, and SHOULD be no more than 78 characters, excluding
the CRLF.
</blockquote>
The easy fix here is to apply f=f encoding of outgoing messages. I'm not going to have the time to look into this myself, but I'll be happy to provide guidance and/or conformance testing to anyone wanting to have a go.
For your reference, f=f is described in RFC 2646: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2646.txt
Bob
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