On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 18:39, Adrean Clarkcs@clercscar.com wrote:

Word wrap was forced.  The text I pasted was not supposed to have line breaks, it was supposed to fit the width of the mail program.  Plain text usually runs the width of the screen it's on  -- that's what I want, not forced line ends.  Hope I'm making sense.

For some definition of usually - yes ;) Traditionally plain text wraps at under 80 characters (72-78 being a fairly common maximum) and many mail clients will support that behaviour. What you describe is a relatively recent change in the way plain text emails are displayed.

I checked the archives and the line breaks were there.

So it must be my mail program that's causing the problem?  I tried sending the same message from Google mail and my SquirrelMail program -- both had the hard wrap.

Are you doing a copy-and-paste? That'll preserve existing line wraps and you'll get the behaviour you describe. If you want it to flow then you have to ensure that you enter it with line breaks only where you want them.

Note that even if you do that, the final handling is up to the mail client. Some will hard wrap the lines anyway and some will flow hard-wrapped lines.

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Adrean Clark wrote:

So it must be my mail program that's causing the problem? I tried sending the same message from Google mail and my SquirrelMail program -- both had the hard wrap.

Both Google Mail and Squirrel Mail wrap messages. Look at the message in your sent mail or sent folder. You'll see it wrapped there.

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