[pmmail-list] long-time question

[James Moe]

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On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 10:00:46 +0100 (CET), Maurice Gu=E9ron wrote:

>
>I'll put my comments in upper case.
>On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 17:33:13 -0700 (MST), James Moe wrote:
>|  The first two are ways the mail message are sent over the mail
>transport.
>THE MESSAGE THAT I AM SENDING?
>
  Any message at all but, yes, the message you send. The mail client mus=
t perform any 
encoding selected.

>|
>|>Do not perform character set translation
>THIS ALSO REFERS TO THE MESSAGE I AM SENDING?
>
  Both.

>|  The setting really does not do much for western languages.
>EVEN AS REGARDS FRENCH ACCENTS?
>
  I do not know.

>CONCLUSION: WHAT SETTINGS SHOULD I USE? QP OR 8BIT OR NONE? DIFFERENT
>SETTINGS ACCORDING TO THE LANGUAGE I USE FOR MY MESSAGE? ACCORDING TO T=
HE
>SYSTEM USD BU THE RECCEIVER?
>
  I do not have any experience here since almost all correspondence is i=
n us-ascii.
  It depends on your audience. Try 8bit first. If you get complaints abo=
ut odd or 
unreadable messages, use quoted printable. 
  Disable charset translation.



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>Can I bother you with more? After I send a message, get an answer, send=
 it
>again, the lines usually end up mangled and cut up. Is there a convenie=
nt
>setting for Wrap to avoid this? The only one I have found so far is to
>suppress wrap completely. But if I do this, the built-in editor does no=
t
>wrap, very inconvenient for writing...
>
  You can select an external editor. Go to Account->Account Settings->Ed=
itor.
  On the Account->Account Settings->Send page you can set the length of =
wrapped lines. 
IIRC the default is 76. Mine is set to 72 which allows for a couple a re=
plies.
  Or select the WYSIWYG wrap which does no actual line wrapping when the=
 message is 
sent. It leaves the formatting to the receiving end, not yours.

>And do you have a good source for all this info, which I cannot extract=

>from the program Help pages?
>
  Alas, no. Email protocols are spread over a large number of RFCs and a=
re rich in 
tech-ese. There are several books that discuss developing email clients =
(Mail User 
Agents). The only one I have (Internet Email Protocols: A Developer's Gu=
ide) is out of 
print and is for programmers. (I have just started reading it.)


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