I've noticed that when you compose and send a mail in Roundcube that if you just type your message and do not press enter every 76 characters or so that roundcube just sends the email with one huge long line of text. This makes people who's mail readers (or things like mailing list web archives) complain and they always tell you off and say to set your mail reader to make a newline every 76 characters or so or else they have to scroll across one huge long line of text.
When you view the message in roundcube (the sent folder) it looks fine, the display of the message does some wrapping, but if you view the source then you can see the huge long line.
Is it possible to get an option added to set a wordwrap length during composing?
This mail has been deliberatly typed in this way to show you what I mean. It should look perfectly fine in the message viewer but the source of the message should have the paragraphs only taking up one single huge long line.
Regards, Matt.
PS: I've got the 76 characters figure from taking a quick look at the options in MS Outlook where it's set to wrap at 76 chars.
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 09:50:53AM +0000, Matt Smith wrote:
I've noticed that when you compose and send a mail in Roundcube that if you just type your message and do not press enter every 76 characters or so that roundcube just sends the email with one huge long line of text. This makes people who's mail readers (or things like mailing list web archives) complain and they always tell you off and say to set your mail reader to make a newline every 76 characters or so or else they have to scroll across one huge long line of text.
When you view the message in roundcube (the sent folder) it looks fine, the display of the message does some wrapping, but if you view the source then you can see the huge long line.
Is it possible to get an option added to set a wordwrap length during composing?
This mail has been deliberatly typed in this way to show you what I mean. It should look perfectly fine in the message viewer but the source of the message should have the paragraphs only taking up one single huge long line.
Regards, Matt.
PS: I've got the 76 characters figure from taking a quick look at the options in MS Outlook where it's set to wrap at 76 chars.
I've mentioned something similar to this before but it hasn't yet been addressed. I think RC should let you type at will and wrap whenever, and then break the lines at 76 and use proper flowed text before handing the message off to the MTA. In a similar vein, it should really take flowed email messages and cut out the linebreaks after soft wraps.
Hi,
On 3/2/06, Matt Smith matt@xtaz.co.uk wrote:
I've noticed that when (...)
I am wondering, isn't it 65? Maybe I am off.
In any way, while I like your idea to "enforce" this on the user. Education should maybe be done in a different manner. People don't understand why they need this. Same goes with replying inline and TOFU. In this case, maybe it would be the best to give the user the option to wrap. And when they "opt-in", have RC wrap while they type it in (I am not sure if this is possible).
On the other side, maybe it would be just great to "make" people use this. :-) I guess when you are reading a lot of lists it's just disturbing anyway. And if you could prevent this, it would be good. I just don't know if people would like that. ;-)
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On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 01:37:43AM +0100, till wrote:
In any way, while I like your idea to "enforce" this on the user. Education should maybe be done in a different manner. People don't understand why they need this. Same goes with replying inline and TOFU. In this case, maybe it would be the best to give the user the option to wrap. And when they "opt-in", have RC wrap while they type it in (I am not sure if this is possible).
Shouldn't it be possible to do some wrapping with javascript?
Balu
PS: The mail netiquette tells me to wrap lines after 70 chars ;)
On 6 Mar 2006, at 01:36, Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote:
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 01:37:43AM +0100, till wrote:
In any way, while I like your idea to "enforce" this on the user. Education should maybe be done in a different manner. People don't understand why they need this. Same goes with replying inline and TOFU. In this case, maybe it would be the best to give the user the option to wrap. And when they "opt-in", have RC wrap while they type it in (I am not sure if this is possible).
Shouldn't it be possible to do some wrapping with javascript?
If you don't mind not validating, you can just use <textarea
wrap="hard"> and set the width to whatever column count you want to
wrap to.
will
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