* On 19 Nov 2012, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 02:46:23PM +0000, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > > > > Ah, i understand your problem now. I did misunderstand but that's not your > > fault, your English is very good actually. > > > > As far as I know, it's not possible. I believe you must be subscribed to > > the list. You can have the mailing list manager send you digests, so you > > won't receive lot's of email, just one each day or whatever the frequency > > is. That might help you a bit and cut down the number of mails. Although, > > actually, the list doesn't appear to be as active as it once was when I > > first subscribed, so the number of mails aren't especially high compared to > > some lists. > > Ouch! Could you please set the "line wrap" value in your editor to a > sane value? 72 characters seems to be the recommended setting. > > (I though you had mistakenly sent this mail midstream, there was no > content after "...the mailing list manager send". I only saw that there > was content when I decided to reply regarding this issue, i.e. your > mails are hard to read)
I'm concerned that you can't read Jamie's medium-length lines with mutt. You should be able. Are you using a display filter that truncates lines? The only broad technical issue with long lines is that SMTP does not require support for lines longer than 999 bytes, and an MTA may truncate or force-wrap such lines at its pleasure. That's what quoted-printable's format=flowed is for; it lets you compose however you like and lets anyone else read however they like, so that nobody needs to have officious conversations about line length. A welcome addition to this thread would be information on how to compose in "qpff" using mutt. Reflowing macros might also be useful. (BTW, auto word wrap isn't always welcome. I can't stand it, personally.) -- David Champion • d...@bikeshed.us
