plain text and line breaks

[Ivan Bútora]

I am using Outlook 2000. I prefer to use the quoted printable encoding for e-mail messages, since this doesn't create line breaks.
I was wondering, however, why, if one selects plain text with no encoding, one *must* specify a line length. I.e. why can't Outlook (or other mailing programs for that matter) send pure plain text with line breaks only where the user inserted them by pressing Enter. In such case, the message source would read a paragraph as one long line, but the receiving mailing program should be able to wrap this line so that it fits onto the screen.
By the way - is there any way to see the message source in Outlook (not just the headers)? This is possible in Outlook Express, but I haven't seen it in Outlook.
Thanks for any help.

Ivan

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Not all clients can wrap text to screen. Granted, most of the programs are
older versions, as long as they are still in use you should use a line
length.


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I am using Outlook 2000. I prefer to use the quoted printable encoding for
e-mail messages, since this doesn't create line breaks.
I was wondering, however, why, if one selects plain text with no encoding,
one *must* specify a line length. I.e. why can't Outlook (or other mailing
programs for that matter) send pure plain text with line breaks only where
the user inserted them by pressing Enter. In such case, the message source
would read a paragraph as one long line, but the receiving mailing program
should be able to wrap this line so that it fits onto the screen.
By the way - is there any way to see the message source in Outlook (not just
the headers)? This is possible in Outlook Express, but I haven't seen it in
Outlook.
Thanks for any help.

Ivan

 

[Ivan Bútora]

Yes, but how come that there is no option to not use line length? I haven't seen such an option in Netscape or Mozilla either. In Outlook 2000, however, there is an option to use quoted-printable encoding (which I use), and I'm sure there are some older clients not able to decode that either, right?
I'd also be interested in why MS has limited the plain text encoding options even further in Outlook 2002 and 2003....
Is it such a problem for an e-mail client to include a variety of custom options for encoding messages? If so, why?
Thanks,

Ivan


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Not all clients can wrap text to screen. Granted, most of the programs are
older versions, as long as they are still in use you should use a line
length.


--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)


Search for answers: http://groups.google.com
Most recent posts to the Outlook newsgroups:
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_ugroup=microsoft.public.outlook.*&num=30

I am using Outlook 2000. I prefer to use the quoted printable encoding for
e-mail messages, since this doesn't create line breaks.
I was wondering, however, why, if one selects plain text with no encoding,
one *must* specify a line length. I.e. why can't Outlook (or other mailing
programs for that matter) send pure plain text with line breaks only where
the user inserted them by pressing Enter. In such case, the message source
would read a paragraph as one long line, but the receiving mailing program
should be able to wrap this line so that it fits onto the screen.
By the way - is there any way to see the message source in Outlook (not just
the headers)? This is possible in Outlook Express, but I haven't seen it in
Outlook.
Thanks for any help.

Ivan

 

[Ivan Bútora]

Any answers to my reply?
Also, what about my other question: Can you view the full message source in Outlook?

Thanks,

Ivan


Not all clients can wrap text to screen. Granted, most of the programs are
older versions, as long as they are still in use you should use a line
length.


--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)


Search for answers: http://groups.google.com
Most recent posts to the Outlook newsgroups:
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_ugroup=microsoft.public.outlook.*&num=30

I am using Outlook 2000. I prefer to use the quoted printable encoding for
e-mail messages, since this doesn't create line breaks.
I was wondering, however, why, if one selects plain text with no encoding,
one *must* specify a line length. I.e. why can't Outlook (or other mailing
programs for that matter) send pure plain text with line breaks only where
the user inserted them by pressing Enter. In such case, the message source
would read a paragraph as one long line, but the receiving mailing program
should be able to wrap this line so that it fits onto the screen.
By the way - is there any way to see the message source in Outlook (not just
the headers)? This is possible in Outlook Express, but I haven't seen it in
Outlook.
Thanks for any help.

Ivan