[Zymail-devel] line wrap (was Re: Great work! ...)

[Joe S. <jo...@in...>]

On Jan 2, 2008, at 1:17 PM, Joe Strout wrote:

>> But, maybe we shouldn't wrap and let the client app wrap where
>> needed.
>
> For styled text, sure, but not for plain text.  Some (admittedly
> poorly-written but nonetheless common) MTAs will truncate or
> otherwise abuse lines longer than 76 characters.

This is a more complex subject than it first appears; there are  
different Content-Type modifiers (e.g. format=flowed) which affect  
how the data is to be interpreted.  I believe RFCs 2464 & 3676 set  
the standard for this, but I haven't looked into them in much depth yet.

Best,
- Joe

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Joe Strout
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