The problem isn't with mail delivery, it's with the archives. It goes without saying that Mailman can't do anything about how users configure their mail clients. But Mailman does control how the *archives* are displayed.

Not being a Python programmer, I haven't looked into a solution yet for my own installation. But the problem has surfaced enough times on this list that it seems worth addressing.

-Susan Dridi

Jeremy Portzer jeremyp@pobox.com wrote:

On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 17:08, ellen lenihan wrote:

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I posted this question to the list before but did not see a response so I

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thought I'd try again. Anyway - I'm new to managing a list and we've notice that for our archives there is no carriage return. So text just runs very far to the right making it very hard to read. Any suggestions? Thanks, Ellen

Does this occur with every message in the archive, or just some of them? If it's just some of them, it probably indicates that the original poster used a mail program that didn't send carriage returns in the first place. This is a bug or misconfiguration in the original mail program, and not mailman's fault. Ask your users to set the line length at 72 characters.

If this affects all posts, including those with proper carriage returns in the original message, I'm not sure what to say.

--Jeremy