Archived emails to mailing lists are displayed without line-wrapping

Erik Schnetter

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Your email does not contain any line break in its paragraphs.

I think that our mailing list software is not very clever in presenting emails; it just shows the line breaks that the original email has.

2012-01-09T07:51:17+00:00

Frank Löffler

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Replying to [comment:1 eschnett]:

I think that our mailing list software is not very clever in presenting emails; it just shows the line breaks that the original email has.

That is what I would expect it to do. Suppose you don't want to have line breaks, e.g. because you pasted some code which wouldn't work with line breaks.

If you want line breaks, you should have the email client insert them.

2012-01-09T08:29:54+00:00

Ian Hinder reporter

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I don't want the archive to insert line breaks, I want it to wrap the text to the width of the window. If I send an email to a mailing list with the default settings of a standard mail client (Apple Mail), then I expect that mail to be formatted in the same way in the archive as when it is displayed in standard mail clients. Standard mail clients will wrap the text to the width of the window, and that is what I would expect from the HTML in the message archive.

(Note: this is a separate issue to the ancient problem of not being allowed more than 76 characters per line in raw SMTP - that is handled by the quoted-printable encoding method in MIME, and the email should simply be considered to have no line breaks in its paragraphs.)