HTML Email - was [oclug] Stormix troubles...

[Vic Gedris]

On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Taylor, Chris wrote:

> Actually, this interests me. We are in the middle of a debate at work
> regarding the possibility of changing the corporate email system. It
> currently breaks lines at something like 72 characters for anything going
> out the SMTP gateway. One problem with this is when people send really long
> URLs. They end up being broken and the receiver has to put it back together
> (as well as understand they *have* to put it back together.)
>
> I wonder what the current thinking is - should lines be left to the receiver
> to wrap? Are there still mail clients that have a problem dealing with long
> lines?


If wrapping is set up properly, lines will be broken at 72 characters
*between words*, but one long word that is more than 72 characters long
will first wrap to the next line, but then keep going.

For example, here's a really long URL at the end of this line:
http://www.blahblahblah.com/asdf/asdf/asdf/asdf/asdf/asdf/asdf/asdf/asdf/asdf/asdf/asdf/asfd/asdf/asdf/asdf/asdf/asdf/asdf/

So that previous "line" I posted should be broken into two lines, but no
more than that.

However, some mail programs will automatically wrap it when viewing.

But breaking *all* lines at 72 characters is wrong, IMHO.

Cheers,
Vic

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