This doesn't seem to be such a common/requested feature though nearly everyone uses it in newsgroups.
On 06/13/11 05:05, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I suspect you get something similar to this > > dummytextdummytextdumm ytext dummytextdummytextdumm ytext > > Right? exactly > Perhaps you need to edit the preferences from 80 to 72 characters. Wish there was such an interface.... Anyway, I got it to auto fold at 72 regardless of window size, by this rare precious guide > http://kb.mozillazine.org/Fixed_width_messages of which i copied here the main part to ease eventual researches and reduce risk of server lost. -- Set fixed-width plain text on thunderbird and derived: On the page Advanced – General, press the Config Editor... button. Set the Filter to: flowed Set the following preference to the opposite of its default (for example, by double-clicking it), so that the setting is: mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed user set boolean false Optionally set the other preference to the opposite of its default (for example, by double-clicking it). If you do this, then messages that other people send to you also appear to be fixed-width, even if the person who sent the message intended it to flow: mailnews.display.disable_format_flowed_support user set boolean true -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/it438j$5ji$1...@dough.gmane.org