Line breaks in fixed width plain text messages

[David Westcott]

Is there a way of preventing Entourage (2004) from imposing line breaks in
plain text messages?

The current behaviour is to insert a line break every 76 characters. This is
different to many email clients now handle long lines.

As an example Apple's Mail.app uses a recent SMTP extension whereby the
"format=flowed" parameter is added to the plain/text Content-type. This
formats messages as fixed width but allows other email clients to reassemble
long lines and re-flow them.


Most recent email clients now support this SMTP extension - Should
Entourage?


TIA

David
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David Westcott
Senior Team Leader - Workstations & Media Devices
Information Services, Cardiff University

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[Barry Wainwright [MVP]]

Is there a way of preventing Entourage (2004) from imposing line breaks in
plain text messages?

The current behaviour is to insert a line break every 76 characters. This is
different to many email clients now handle long lines.

As an example Apple's Mail.app uses a recent SMTP extension whereby the
"format=flowed" parameter is added to the plain/text Content-type. This
formats messages as fixed width but allows other email clients to reassemble
long lines and re-flow them.


Most recent email clients now support this SMTP extension - Should
Entourage?

Should Entourage? YES, IT SHOULD!

format=flowed has been at the top of the MVP's wishlists for Entourage for
several years.

Will we get it? I don't know. MS know we want it. You can help. You can send
feedback to the developers on this issue. Use the last menu item under the
'Help' menu - "Send Feedback on Entourage". This message will go directly to
the developers. The more people that request this feature the more likely it
is to be implemented.


As to what to do - if you want _shorter_ lines, there are scripts available
to truncate lines. If you want longer, flowing lines - you have to use HTML
(you will often see MVPs and others posting scripts in HTML to avoid
accidental line-wraps).