I get email messages from one person and they seem to be fixed line
length. That is, if I shrink the window that has the message body, the
message gets cut off at the edge of the window.

What causes this?

What can I tell this person to do so that her emails wrap?

Thanks.

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In comp.mail.misc, Alek <[email protected]> wrote:

I get email messages from one person and they seem to be fixed line
length. That is, if I shrink the window that has the message body, the message gets cut off at the edge of the window.

What causes this?

Could be a bunch of things. What do the message headers (and part
headers, if multipart) say? Is it text/plain with "format=fixed"?
Or text/html with <pre> or what?

What can I tell this person to do so that her emails wrap?

MUA options are beyond my expertise.

Elijah
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mailx is a fine program

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Eli the Bearded wrote on 10/20/2017 5:23 PM:

In comp.mail.misc, Alek <[email protected]> wrote:

I get email messages from one person and they seem to be fixed line
length. That is, if I shrink the window that has the message body, the
message gets cut off at the edge of the window.

What causes this?

Could be a bunch of things. What do the message headers (and part
headers, if multipart) say? Is it text/plain with "format=fixed"?
Or text/html with <pre> or what?

What can I tell this person to do so that her emails wrap?

MUA options are beyond my expertise.

Elijah
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mailx is a fine program

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In comp.mail.misc, Alek <[email protected]> wrote:

Headers below:

...

MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="_=aspNetEmail=_4fbe7268c12542b1b9bec01e71d8ecde" --_=aspNetEmail=_4fbe7268c12542b1b9bec01e71d8ecde

...

Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Very ordinary headers, not sure why that would display funny.

Do they used only non-breaking spaces or something crazy like that?

Elijah
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Eli the Bearded wrote on 10/21/2017 8:04 PM:

In comp.mail.misc, Alek <[email protected]> wrote:

Headers below:

...

MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="_=aspNetEmail=_4fbe7268c12542b1b9bec01e71d8ecde"
--_=aspNetEmail=_4fbe7268c12542b1b9bec01e71d8ecde

...

Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Very ordinary headers, not sure why that would display funny.

Do they used only non-breaking spaces or something crazy like that?

Elijah
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removed all the non-MIME headers

Thanks, Eli. How could I tell if they used non-breaking spaces?

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In comp.mail.misc, Alek <[email protected]> wrote:

Thanks, Eli. How could I tell if they used non-breaking spaces?

In the HTML part it would look something like this:

In&nbsp;the&nbsp;HTML&nbsp;part&nbsp;it&nbsp;would&nbsp;look&nbsp;something&nbsp;like&nbsp;this:

In the text part it would have the Unicode character for non-breaking
space, which is a lot harder to "see". Some sort of character
deconstructor would work, like the "Show Unicode Character" tool at

http://qaz.wtf/u/

Just paste a line in, leaving the default "raw string" setting. It can
tell you exactly which whitespace characters were used, and there are a
lot of them:

http://qaz.wtf/u/grep.cgi?grep=+space

In practice, most are rarely used, but non-breaking and zero-width are
fairly common. I see zero-width spaces often used to break up phrases to computer parsers while not visually breaking them for humans, things
like "make this URL not get automatically linked" stuff.

Elijah
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On
10/18/2017
04:48
PM,
Alek
wrote:

I get email messages from one person and they seem to be fixed line
length. That is, if I shrink the window that has the message body, the message gets cut off at the edge of the window.

What causes this?

What can I tell this person to do so that her emails wrap?

Based
on
the
headers
of
your
first
reply
to
Eli,
I
am
guessing
that
the
sender
(or
thier
mail
system)
is
not
using
format=flowed
text.

I
am
typing
my
reply
with
one
word
per
line,
and
letting
format=flowed
dynamically
re-flow
the
message
in
your
client.

(Based
on
your
User-Agent:
header,
you
are
using
Thunderbird
which
should
show
this
properly.)

Research
format=flowed
for
text
messages.

I
love
format=flowed
and
go
out
of
my
way
to
use
it.



--

Grant.
.
.
.
unix
||
die

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