[LINK] E-mail question

[Kim Holburn]

I should add 2 things.

1. in Thunderbird there is an option to turn off plain text wrapping.

2. The other option I found was to send html mail (shudder)  That  
does work in apple mail.

On 2007/Jun/09, at 7:55 AM, Kim Holburn wrote:

> This is a "feature" of Apple Mail.  Apple mmail wraps all plain  
> text at about 75 characters and adds a space even to URLs.  There  
> is a standard for this which I've forgotten the mname of right  
> now.  Lots of other clients don't handle this correctly.
> <http://www.google.com/search?q=url+space+apple+mail>
>
> If you want to publish 80+ character URLs use thunderbird.  The  
> angle brackets do help though.  Most email clients honour the angle  
> brackets.
>
>
> On 2007/Jun/09, at 3:06 AM, Ivan Trundle wrote:
>
>>
>> On 09/06/2007, at 10:41 AM, Jan Whitaker wrote:
>>
>>> When I get a URL split over two lines, I click the edit button  
>>> and remove the line break. it works then. I know that isn't  
>>> addressing your point about the <> strategy. I think it does  
>>> work. Where it gets changed is when a distributor like  
>>> Yahoogroups narrows the line length to less than the unwrapped  
>>> screen width upon which the message was created.
>>
>> I probably should have explained myself better, and in any event,  
>> my e-ail client doesn't hard wrap or break text, so I'm only  
>> guessing the outcome.
>>
>> What I'm looking for is a fail-safe option to publish 80-plus  
>> character URLs in plain text e-mails.
>>
>> We're having some healthy debate about the best strategy, but I'm  
>> not interested in the 'right' approach - only one that works  
>> without the recipient having to either edit or retype. The problem  
>> that we are experiencing in my workplace at the moment is that  
>> some mail client software splits long URLs, and IGNORES the  
>> wrapped component, resulting in unfollowable links.
>>
>> We are receiving (a few) complaints from recipients who use a wide  
>> variety of mail clients, from web-based to OS-based. It's not  
>> always easy to ask them what they were using when it failed, either.
>>
>> I'm merely trying to resolve this easily and simply (and no,  
>> offering TinyURL et al is *not* a solution, alas) - I had thought  
>> that the < and > worked, and if I could find validation of this, I  
>> could bludgeon a recalcitrant programmer with this information.
>>
>> iT
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