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Line length

Asked by JHL

When I compose new mail, evolution puts in newline characters in my text.
I do not want this, it destroys the readability of the text I am sending.
When I enter this text ...

Mod[1] Int[0x004 2] Time[Tue-11/Mar/2008 12:00:14] Cntr2 Hptdc: 0x00000000
Mod[1] Int[0x004 2] Time[Tue-11/Mar/2008 12:00:14.0156250000] Cntr2 Hptdc: 0x02625A00
Mod[1] Int[0x004 2] Time[Tue-11/Mar/2008 12:00:14.0312500000] Cntr2 Hptdc: 0x04C4B400

It dose this to it rendering it unreadable ...

Mod[1] Int[0x004 2] Time[Tue-11/Mar/2008 12:00:14] Cntr2 Hptdc:
0x00000000
Mod[1] Int[0x004 2] Time[Tue-11/Mar/2008 12:00:14.0156250000] Cntr2
Hptdc: 0x02625A00
Mod[1] Int[0x004 2] Time[Tue-11/Mar/2008 12:00:14.0312500000] Cntr2
Hptdc: 0x04C4B400

How can I switch this behaviour off and get evolution to send exactly what I type.

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Christophe Painchaud (dash-ionblast) said : 		#1

Hello,

I might be wrong but pure text emails have a limited line length. Try to switch to html email mode and tell if it solved your problem.

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JHL (lewis-julian) said : 		#2

You are correct. When I use HTML format there are no inserted line
breaks. The limited line length is a "feature" of plain text. OK so I
guess I am forced to send in HTML if I don't want random line feeds
thrown in my text. What I was looking for is a configuration parameter
that lets me choose line length in plain text format. I tried to look
with the Ubuntu configuration editor, but found nothing. This plain text
message I am typing has line breaks inserted by evolution. as you can
see the length is very short. I think this is a serious draw back to the
plain text implementation in evolution. There MUST be a way to change
this, surely its not hard coded.

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JHL (lewis-julian) said : 		#3

You are correct. When I use HTML format there are no inserted line
breaks. The limited line length is a "feature" of plain text. OK so I
guess I am forced to send in HTML if I don't want random line feeds
thrown in my text. What I was looking for is a configuration parameter
that lets me choose line length in plain text format. I tried to look
with the Ubuntu configuration editor, but found nothing. This plain text
message I am typing has line breaks inserted by evolution. as you can
see the length is very short. I think this is a serious draw back to the
plain text implementation in evolution. There MUST be a way to change
this, surely its not hard coded.

On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 12:44 +0000, Christophe Painchaud wrote:
> Your question #26797 on evolution in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+question/26797
>
> Status: Open => Needs information
>
> Christophe Painchaud requested for more information:
> Hello,
>
> I might be wrong but pure text emails have a limited line length. Try to
> switch to html email mode and tell if it solved your problem.
>

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Christophe Painchaud (dash-ionblast) said : 		#4

In fact, it's a SMTP feature :) , it doesn' allow long lines.

May be if you configure your client to generate base64 encoded emails even for pure text message ... dunno if you can force that somewhere

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