[colug-432] 80-cols email?

[Michael Yanovich]

The Enigmail extension for Thunderbird can force e-mail composition to
80 lines and plain-text only (for viewing and sending). The complete
list that can be customized is:

* Disable loading IMAP parts on demand
* Disable flowed text (RFC 2646)
* View message body as plain text
* Use 8-bit encoding for message sending
* Do not compose HTML messages

You can install the extension and have it apply these settings and not
use PGP if you wish. (I have this setup on a couple of e-mail addresses
in my configuration). I've grown accustomed to viewing e-mail in plain
text and the line breaking at 80 characters.

On 07/05/2012 02:41 PM, Angelo McComis wrote:
> I've seen this reference more than once, and pardon the lack of context in
> this area as to who this serves, but who still, in 2012, is using a modern
> communications protocol like e-mail, yet using a program for it that is
> incapable of something as simple as line-breaking and paragraph formatting,
> so as to not overrun the screen on an 80-column reader? 
> 
> And what program is this that has such a problem? 
> 
> Perhaps Stallman is on our list? :)
> 
> Sorry if I'm swinging a stick at a hornets nest here, but the topics on this
> list are usually of the "how can I use this newer technology" and hardware
> enablement on Linux...  rather than the "how do I keep this dinosaur 386
> hardware running" variety, so this ever-so-simple email issue seems a bit
> odd.
> 
> --
> Angelo
> 
> /written via an app that will auto wrap long lines for me for plain text
> readers.
> 
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-- 
Michael Yanovich



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