Re: can we break the wordwrap limit in kmail?

On Thursday 14 September 2006 01:59, heavytull stood up and addressed the
masses in /comp.os.linux.misc/ as follows...:

Aragorn wrote:
On Wednesday 13 September 2006 16:28, heavytull stood up and addressed
the masses in /comp.os.linux.misc/ as follows...:

the wordwrap limit is column 78, I don't no why!

Try /Netiquette/ for an explanation. ;-)

Netiquette? which one??

The fact that technically a margin has to be set, and the fact that most
users find 80 characters per line most agreeable with their visual acuity.

Not everyone is using a GUI e-mail
(or Usenet) client, and most character mode displays are only 80
characters wide

sticking to the specs of those *old* systems for nostalgic people

Narrow-minded thinking, picturing "the PC" as the only computer system in
existence? What about people working on dumb serial terminals on UNIX
machines?

actually I would like kmail sets a dynamic wordwrap limit which changes
regarding the window size.

E-mail generally isn't HTML - despite Microsoft's persistent tendency to
promote and stimulate the use of HTML in e-mails.
Upon sending plain text e-mail, line wraps become linefeeds, and as such,
the message is delivered.

you mean line wraps enlarges the email size in html??

Now where did I write anything of such sort? I was describing how plain
text e-mail is handled by the protocol, more or less.

regarding the speed of common internet connections I would never be
agaisnt some extra data required by html when it adds for reading
comfort.

HTML has nothing to do with comfort, and if you ever get any phishing
e-mails, you'll thank $DEITY that your e-mail client can display plain text
e-mails.

there are a lot of features changing the look of emails; liking it or
not is just a matter of the user's tastes.

And most of those features are blatant security hazards, such as HTML
e-mails that contain links to pictures that are being loaded from
webservers separately.

i'm using kmail 1.8.2 maybe this issue is already solved in recent
releases.

It's not a /KMail/ thing, it's an *e-mail* thing... ;-)

nothing prevents an editor to fulfill such a requirement.

You don't seem to understand how e-mail works...

--
With kind regards,

*Aragorn*
(registered GNU/Linux user #223157)
.

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