Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: [ ... ]
I don't see anything in the standards that defines this format, so I suppose the answer should be "yes". On a more practical basis, I don't know of any UNIX-based MUA which treats this correctly, and none of the messages I looked at it had this attribute. In addition, I can't see how "format=flowed" can distinguish between computer output (which should be quoted unchanged, possibly with very long lines) and text, which RFC 2822 recommends to be 78 characters or less. It also makes it almost impossible to quote.
Netscape/Mozilla is the most common MUA which uses format=flowed. Mozilla certainly meets the "UNIX-based MUA" requirement, as it is available as a FreeBSD port. This message should be an example of that MIME content-type, and the raw ASCII representation should be fine for 80-column viewing.
Quoting email written in format=flowed should also be okay, although not perfect, since Mozilla sometimes has a habit of prepending a space before a quoted line inconsistently, resulting in output like:
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Mask IP:port with Domain Name Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 11:46:20 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: John DeStefano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii
John DeStefano wrote: > Chuck Swiger wrote: >> There's no way to avoid the port number in the URL, then. Consider >> switching to a provider that lets you host local services... > > Does that then nullify your previous recommendations?
Nope. It just means that you can only get one of the two things you asked for.
> Can you recommend any such providers?
Of dynamic DNS? Yes: www.dyndns.org.
> By hosting "local services", do you mean DNS?
No, I meant being able to run Apache on port 80. You said you didn't want to see IP or port number; the former can be solved by dynamic DNS, the latter can't be solved if your ISP blocks port 80. [ ... ] ------------------------------
Mozilla tries to special-case the reformatting of quoted text to avoid breaking quotation levels, but it displays "> " and " > " the same-- as a single colored vertical bar so it's not possible for a user to notice the issue during composition.
For a detailed review of various test cases, please consult:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199776
-- -Chuck
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