[Ham-Mac] Help with Using Apple's Mail for Posing to Yahoo Groups

[David Kelly]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 09:04:58AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> I have Apple Mail set for plain text and just let its word-wrap
> function do it's thing.  There doesn't appear to be any setting for
> line length and I wonder if it may be a function of the width of the
> typing window?  Unfortunately my ISP uses Google Mail and it doesn't
> forward copies of my messages sent to groups on Yahoo or other servers
> to my system (I rarely check the web pages).  

Mail.app sends Content-Flowed whether plain text or not.

Yahoo!'s automatic line wrapping rules seem to differ as to whether one
is receiving "Fully Featured" or "Traditional", and/or Individual or
Daily Digest. Yahoo! doesn't seem to handle Content-Flowed as correctly
as it should. Yahoo! seems to convert the soft breaks into hard breaks.

Just for fun go to your Sent folder in Mail.app and view the email in
question. Type command-option-U to view the contents in the raw. Believe
you will see lines broken and ending with equals signs, or equals 20.
Yahoo! doesn't seem to handle the combination of these soft breaks and
hard breaks.

The best way to deal with it in Mail.app is to only CR to terminate
paragraphs.

We'll address top-posting the next time. I fail to understand why some
people don't understand that words should be listed in the order spoken.

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly at HiWAAY.net
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