Does Pine wrap lines?

[Octavian Rasnita]

Thank you, but I don't understand why that guy that is reading the mail with
pine ask the others to wrap the lines and not to send very long lines.
Maybe there is a configuration in pine that he doesn't know?

Teddy,
orasnita at home.ro

----- Original Message -----
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at afb.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 6:05 PM
Subject: Re: Does Pine wrap lines?


>
> 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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