[Ham-Mac] Ham-Mac Digest, Vol 89, Issue 13

[Dick Kriss]

On Jun 30, 2011, at 11:00 AM, ham-mac-request at mailman.qth.net wrote:

> 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.
> 
> -- 
> David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly at HiWAAY.net

David N4HHE,

I did not see your response until after I posted the solution to change from
Plain Text to Rich Text.  Your tip on using the command-option-U worked
great and like you indicated my Plain Text message showed all kinds of
"=20" annotations but the Rich Text version dropped the 20.  It looks like 
Yahoo can deal with the equal sign but cannot deal with the equal 20.

Using the Rich Text format the  "=" is interpreted as a return and "=20="
is a paragraph.  Yahoo tilts on the "=20" Apple uses with the Plain Text
option.

Thank you for the explanation!

73 Dick AA5VU

Now using the Rich Text format for everything.