Receiving html e-mail in Evolution

[Ben Steeves]

On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 10:13, Shi-Ming Chen wrote:
> 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 Dams said, you *never* split a word in the middle.

> > 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. 
> That is, I can't read auto-wrapped html e-mail in Evolution?

HTML mail implies the sender wanted to convey a particular formatting. 
Reformatting  it would defeat the purpose.  Reason number #53 why HTML
isn't a good fit for e-mail purposes!

Ben
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