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Re: Sorry, completely off-topic. I've a mailer problem

From
DSDirk Süsserott <newsletter@dirk.my1.cc>
Date
May 5, 2011, 18:59 UTC
Message-ID
<4DC2F390.2040401@dirk.my1.cc>
In-Reply-To
<4DC1B103.90007@cisco.com>
Am 04.05.2011 22:03 schrieb Phil Hord:
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> On 05/04/2011 03:12 PM, Dirk Süsserott wrote:
>> Sorry, I know, this is no Thunderbird board, but I guess other people
>> use this client as well.
>>
>> When I write a message, it wraps at col 72 (or so). When I see my post
>> in the list, it isn't wrapped at all. Only one long line per
>> paragraph. That's inconvenient for the list and I'd like to avoid
>> that. How do YOU do that?
> 
> 
> Options > Format > Plain text only
> 
> However, your emails are being sent wrapped as you see them originally.
>   But in your email headers is this line:
> 
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
> 
> The "format=flowed" is convincing Thunderbird to unwrap your lines when
> you view them in Thunderbird. The raw text of your emails look fine.
> (In Thunderbird, examine the raw email with Ctrl-U.)
> 
> More on f=f: http://joeclark.org/ffaq.html
> 
> Phil
> 
Thank you, Phil and Øyvind,

I now configured my Thunderbird to do it right (I hope). My next post will tell ...

Dirk
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Message 8 of 8 in “removing a commit from a branch”
  1. Gergely BudayMay 4, 2011
  2. Jeff KingMay 4, 2011
  3. Gergely BudayMay 4, 2011
  4. Peter KreftingMay 4, 2011
  5. Dirk SüsserottMay 4, 2011
  6. Sorry, completely off-topic. I've a mailer problem (was: Re: removing a commit from a branch)Dirk Süsserott, May 4, 2011
  7. Øyvind A. HolmMay 4, 2011
  8. Dirk SüsserottMay 5, 2011

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