[ale] line wrapping in Thunderbird's compose

Marc Ferguson marcferguson at gmail.com
Tue Mar 10 17:01:19 EDT 2009


Since it's a client issue, send me a long email and I'll see if it
wraps correctly. Send it to marc at fergytech.net. I'll use Evolution and
Gmail to test.

On 3/10/09, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:
> That would be up to the recipient's client. You should only need to
> enter a new line when you want to start a new paragraph. Most email
> clients will wrap plain text emails to 80 characters, or the width of
> the view port. HTML mail should be wrapped to the view port.
>
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Christopher Fowler
> <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
>> Sometimes when I compose an email in Thunderbird I type and type.
>> Sometimes I may hit enter when I get to the end of the compose window
>> sometimes I may allow it to wrap.   When I do this the mail does not look
>> right to the receiver.  Is there a setting in Thunrderbird that will force
>> a NL after the proper number of characters have been typed?
>>
>> Chris
>
>
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