Does Pine wrap lines?

[Janina Sajka]

On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Octavian Rasnita wrote:

> I hope pine can wrap the lines in a received message.

It does. But, it obviously can't do that for someone who isn't
using Pine to read their mail. So, if you're talking about
sending mail to other people, it isn't Pine's job to fix their
problems for them. That job belongs to the mail agent they choose
to use to read their mail with. In other words, it might be an
Outlook problem, or a Eudora problem, or a mutt problem, or a
Pegesys problem, etc., etc.

> 
> Thanks.
> Teddy,
> orasnita at home.ro
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at afb.net>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 9:33 PM
> Subject: Re: Does Pine wrap lines?
> 
> 
> >
> > Octavian:
> >
> > Are you saying that the person using Pine finds lines too long?
> > Or, are you saying that some people who get mail from those of us
> > who use Pine are having trouble with long lines?
> >
> > I think the latter is true. Pine's composer pico, does not
> > arbitrarily wrap lines at some particular position before handing
> > the message off to the mail transport agent. It is considered to
> > be the responsibility of the user agent to wrap appropriately for
> > local conditions. This strategy supports that well--you can havew
> > 65 chars per line, and I can have 138, and the messages look
> > good. If the sending agent were to arbitrarily set a line length
> > of 75 and terminate, then both my 138 and your 65 user agents
> > would show messy messages.
> >
> > I believe this is actually the correct behavior, but I haven't
> > checked the RFC for the correct standard on the subject. Does
> > anyone know off hand?
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I've seen some messages on another list telling that the line is too
> long in
> > > a message.
> > > The guy is using pine.
> > > Doesn't pine wrap the lines that are longer than the screen width?
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Teddy,
> > > orasnita at home.ro
> > >
> > >
> > >
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
http://www.openebook.org