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Month: May 2018

Re: kmail, a couple squawks

From: deloptes <deloptes@...>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 08:24:24 +0200
Gene Heskett wrote:

> Running latest r14, and I am noting that its losing its last read msg
> place in a mailing list easier and easier, sending it back to the first
> time stamp in a given folder. My inbox is approaching 20 years old, as
> is my coco list.
> 

I don't understand what exactly is the problem - can you open a dedicated
thread

> Also, when MMB pasting a url with word wrapping enabled in the composer,
> it breaks the url even if there are no spaces and is of the style
> <a.full.url>. Should it not treat stuff surrounded by <> as unbreakable
> even if it's 500+ chars long, like some of the ebay stuff is these days?
> 

There is RFC about line size in mail - I don't recall exactly which RFC it
was, but there is definitely a reason behind it.
Alternative is to use HTML for mail, but somehow we use text by convention.

> If these 2 annoyances could be addressed at some point, I would be quite
> a bit happier, and would say thank you in all caps. And send another
> donation the next time Tim needs to pay the bills.
> 
You can do this with no condition as well ;-)

> There is one economic law I'm a firm believer in, TANSTAAFL, so despite
> being retired on an SS pension, I manage to try and support the stuff I
> use. Not lavishly of course, given the income here.

So we have to remove the F from FOSS?

regards