Receiving html e-mail in Evolution

Shi-Ming Chen shiming.cv90g at nctu.edu.tw
Thu Mar 11 14:13:24 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 21:06, Ben Steeves wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 04:10, Shi-Ming Chen wrote:
> > When I receiving html e-mail in Evolution, it seems that Evolution can't
> > change the line length by the width of view window.  I made an
> > experiment by sending myself a html e-mail with a long line
> > (aaaaaaaaaaaaa.....).  Then I got the e-mail, and I should scroll right
> > to read the long line. That is inconvenient.
> > Does anyone has this problem?
> 
> You most likely created your horrendously long line while the format
> option was set to "Preformat" -- change it to "Normal" and your text
> will autowrap.  "Preformat" assumes that you know what you're doing;
> Normal lets you be lazy.
> 
That works, but I found that it will never auto-wrapped with a aaaaa...
line. The line must be separated into WORDS (aaa aaaaaa aaaaa ...).
Thanks for your opinion.

> As for received mail, HTML mail will always be considered "preformat",
> and will only wrap when the sender wraps it.  Text will get wrapped
> "normal"-ly. 
> 
> Ben
That is, I can't read auto-wrapped html e-mail in Evolution?

Shi-Ming Chen






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