Adrean Clark wrote:
I'm still having trouble with word wrap. I send out messages in plain text, and I don't have the message editor enabled. I've pasted a sample message below. Also notice in the first sentence of the article a > sign was added. It's not in the original -- where did that come from? Thanks for all your help. [...]
CHASING VISTAS 7 Melanie Bond Words: 2,441 [Memoir]
Chapter 18 Amnicon Falls State Park
From Little Girls Point, we headed west on U.S. Highway 2 and entered northern Wisconsin. After two hours of driving, we passed a road sign [...]
Taking your second question first, lines that begin with "From " are special message separators in many kinds of mailbox files. Thus, when the body of a mail message contains a line that begins with "From " various mail handling software will munge that line, most often by placing '>' in front of it, but sometimes in quoted-printable encoded parts, by encoding the F as =46.
In your case, this escaping of the From to >From probably was done by your mail client or by a transfer agent before it got to Mailman, but if is reached Mailman unescaped, Mailman would have escaped it upon sending the message.
As far as the word wrap issue is concerned, I don't understand the problem. If you are saying that the two lines I quote above together with the rest of that paragraph were typed by you as one long line without any "hard returns" and came back to you as you posted - i.e. wrapped to about a 75 character width - all I can tell you is Mailman didn't do that wrapping. Either the text was wrapped, probably by your mail client, befor it got to Mailman, or it was wrapped after it left Mailman. You should be able to see which by looking at the message in Mailman's archive.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan