Fwd: kmail bugs was: [Bug 61801] doesnt chech email when opening kmail

[Neil Williams]

On Tuesday 29 Jul 2003 3:25 pm, Andreas Gungl wrote:
> about line breaking, i said that kmail dont have like for example kedit and
>  kwrite have, the intelligente line breaking in kmail we only can put in
>  what number of chars the line will break
>
> why the person who made kmail didnt look to other email clients that have
>  this basics features

Files written using kedit and kwrite are not usually for local use, not 
intended for someone else to receive. I get lots of problems with broken 
email clients that do not implement line breaking properly when the emails 
have to be archived. It is not uncommon to find emails with single lines in 
excess of 700 characters. At least when subscribers use KMail and other 
'decent' email clients, the archiver (me) can rely on lines being of a 
reasonable length.

KMail does wrap lines intelligently during composition - inserting a few words 
inside the paragraph above (during composition) moves things along nicely. 
When sending, the line breaks are made into hard breaks instead of soft 
breaks - as all well-behaved clients should.

As a webmaster or an archived site, I don't too much care if one email client 
chooses 78 characters and one chooses 84, as long as ALL choose something. 
When there are broken clients that don't break lines at all, the archiver 
cannot easily impose a decent limit - with so many variations, choosing an 
arbitrary break leads to a lot 
of ugly orphans (just like that one I just forced).

-- 

Neil Williams
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