Re: MHonArc mail archive line wrapping

["t.petch" <[e-mail]>]

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From: "Marc Petit-Huguenin" <[e-mail]>
To: "Bjoern Hoehrmann" <[e-mail]>
Cc: "Stuart Cheshire" <[e-mail]>; "IETF-Discussion list"
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Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 12:22 AM
>
> On 02/15/2011 01:32 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
> > * Stuart Cheshire wrote:
> >> In the MHonArc mail archive there are often super-long lines, which
> >> would be wrapped to the window width when viewing in most mail
> >> clients, but when viewed in a web browser they appear as long single
> >> lines which take a lot of left-to-right scrolling to read them.
> >
> > That is the result of some clients and users violating netiquette and
> > mail standards, for instance, RFC 1855, section 2.1.1:
> >
> >   - Limit line length to fewer than 65 characters and end a line
> >     with a carriage return.
> >
> > and RFC 2822 (and similarily RFC 5322), section 2.1.1:
> >
> >   There are two limits that this standard places on the number of
> >   characters in a line. Each line of characters MUST be no more than
> >   998 characters, and SHOULD be no more than 78 characters, excluding
> >   the CRLF.
> >
> > And this does not cause problems just with unwrapped lines, it also has
> > other effects, like people quoting excessively long lines on one line
> > but then write their own text properly wrapped (that's appropriate be-
> > havior if long lines are rare and most likely intentional, such as when
> > including some computer code you don't want wrapped at odd positions.)
> >
> > I note that one of the main culprits here are Apple Mail users, although
> > you seem to be using it yet have managed to send properly wrapped lines.
> > If there is something Apple Mail users can do to stop their netiquette
> > and standards violations, I would apprciate any pointer you may have.

If only Apple Mail users would stop signing mails it would be a major step
forward.

Depending on the algorithm, I either get a blank pane, and have to
get into properties to see the text, or, with more recent PKIX-based
algorithms, have to wait for a megabyte download of CRL (or, if
I am offline, a two minute lockup of my PC).

Grrr  I don't care what standard signed mails conform to, I just
want them filtered out at source:-)

Tom Petch

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