Re: [fetchmail-users] Problems with line-wrapping and Apple Mail users

[Rob M. <rob...@gm...>]

On 10/27/06, Chris Cera <ce...@cs...> wrote:
> Thanks for the response Rob.
>
> It appears this is not a fetchmail problem so I apologize for
> posting to this forum.

Sometimes it's hard to tell at first, no problem.

> It doesn't appear to be a problem with the client either since I
> just confirmed that it does the same thing on another account
> that I have (with postfix and no procmail, no fetchmail, etc.).
> My mail client is basically just 'cat'ing /var/mail/chris.
>
> I can't explain why gmail has no problem with it though ... so I
> will continue my search elsewhere.  Thank you!

I would say it's down to the support for format=flowed.  A very quick
explanation, take the following:

>One long wrapped
>line is here.
>
>And another long
>wrapped paragraph
>here.

With format=flowed and support in the mail client you'd see:

>One long wrapped line is here.
>
>And another long wrapped paragraph here.

With either a client that doesn't support it, or just text/plain you'd
see it as the first example.  Google will give you many more detailed
(and more accurate) explanations.

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