[oak perl] Mail Annoyance

M. Lewis cajun at cajuninc.com
Fri May 13 14:54:18 PDT 2005


George, suggest you compose a new message similar to what David did. 
Send to list AND cc: David and I. We should be able to isolate the fault 
fairly easily doing it that way I would think.

M


George Woolley wrote:
> Hi David,
> Thanks for the test.  
> What I see through kmail 
> is lines 1-4 scrunched together on one line 
> (e.g. I see line 2line 3 with no space after the 2),  
> no (empty) lines 5 & 7, 
> and lines 6 & 8 each on a separate line.  
> -- George  
> P.S. I've added a few spaces at the end of lines 
> to make this a tad more readable in case 
> someone else has a similar problem.  
> P.P.S. On the other hand, when I look at your test 
> in the archive (using Mozilla or Opera), 
> I see 8 lines.  
>  
> 
> On Friday 13 May 2005 10:22 am, David Alban wrote:
> 
>>[testing:] line 1line 2line 3line 4
>>line 6
>>line 8
>>On 5/13/05, Mark Bole <mark at bincomputing.com> wrote:> George Woolley
>>wrote:> >Recently, I've noticed annoying differences >between what I sent
>>to the list >and what comes back.  >Some (all?) end of lines are gone >and
>>the last word of one line >is combined with the first of the next line.  > 
>>   >At first, I thought that I was one of the few people affected.  >But I
>>get a lot of email from various PM lists,>much of which exhibits the
>>problem, >so now I'm less sure.  >     >  >[...]> I can't offer any
>>solutions, but I can confirm that at least one person I correspond with
>>(but so far, only one) quotes my message in reply, and the quoted message
>>has the same behavior you describe (newlines replaced with nothing).  That
>>person uses x at yahoo.com for a mail address, but I'm not sure if they use
>>the web client or a local client.> As for other annoyances, I see
>>occasional postings to oracle-l at freelists.org where newlines have been
>>replaces with three characters "=20" and then the lines have been
>>re-wrapped.  I also correspond with people in an organization that uses
>>Lotus Notes for mail, and sometimes my quoted original comes back to me in
>>a tiny font, over-indented (=> ugly) HTML display.> I use Netscape 7.1 most
>>of the time for my ISP mail (two POP3 servers, one SMTP server) and Usenet
>>browsing.  I've configured it to send both HMTL and plain text most of the
>>time, but not really sure if that's the best approach, although I haven't
>>heard any complaints (but then most people in my experience just accept
>>what they get and won't bother mentioning it...).> -- Mark
>>Bolehttp://www.bincomputing.com925-287-0366> > >
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