The problem is Roundcube. It does not insert soft line breaks
as per the MIME Quoted-Printable encoding. There's a lot of
MIME stuff that Roundcube doesn't do very well, it's just not a very
good web mail interface. I'm always surprised at how vehemently
people defend it.
Many email clients can be set to automatically wrap received text.
Including the one I'm using now. But I don't turn that feature on
because I want to give the SENDER of the message control over text
positioning. I feel that if the sender has laid out their email a
particular way, they have a reason for it.
ASCII with a fixed font like Courier has always been the standard for
email, and you can do stuff like this with it:
------------------ ------- \
| Network router |---| NID |-------
------------------ ------- /
Which is far, far quicker and more efficient than attaching some visio
drawing that I probably don't have a viewer for loaded on whatever
system I'm using. And I won't even get into indentation of code in
Email messages.
As such, senders who are clever and careful and make use of fixed width
fonts and ASCII text can do a heck of a lot quicker communicating and
more understandable than a bunch of HTMLized stuff using a proportional
spaced font that munges drawings, and destroys indentation, and such
people have a damn good reason at times to send out text that is soft
broken at specific places. So if I turn on Word Wrap like Android does
I have just succeeded in shooting myself in the foot when I get an email
from the smart people. So I assume the sender knows what they are doing
and do I don't try to second guess them by wrapping their stuff.
If you want to send out email that looks like it's been beaten by an
ugly stick with weird looking fonts and lines that run on forever and
ever, with no thought to positioning and making it look readable, as far
as I'm concerned, that's not a reflection on me, it's a reflection on
you. I'm not going to change my config to clean up your email,
particularly when your the only one doing it, no more than I would waste
time tucking in the shirt and straightening the tie and shining the
shoes of a salesguy who showed up to sell me something.
It's also not really my job to explain the concept of the blind leading
the blind and relate that to the fact that "nobody else has ever yadda
yadda yadda" but I'll do it anyway - it wasn't too long ago when the
vast majority of people thought the world was flat, but that merely
meant that the vast majority of people were ignorant - just like the
vast majority of people who have never brought it up to you before are
just as ignorant of line wrapping. After all, it is an esoteric subject.
Ted
On 12/4/2014 10:20 PM, Noel Butler wrote:
On 05/12/2014 14:40, Dave Pooser wrote:
On 12/4/14 10:27 PM, "Nick Edwards"<nick.z.edwa...@gmail.com
<mailto:nick.z.edwa...@gmail.com>> wrote:
It's also not wrapping the text at all.
it wraps fine here
Look at the last roundcube post, the one sent at 01:06 GMT. The line of
quoted text runs 273 columns without a linewrap.
What client are you using?
roundcube - wraps
Evolution - wraps
the font size btw is identical to yours on both.
only two I use for this a/c
forwarded that message in question to my private address, and checked it
in android tablet and phone, both wrap.
since no one has ever brought this up with me before, I'm placing this
as not my problem to resolve.
