Re: Email Lines Mess {was unwrapa invisible?}

[Robert Holmgren holmgren@xxxxxxxx]

** Reply to message from "J. R. Fox"  on Wed, 15 May 2002
12:01:19 -0800

Jordan:

I think it is not so much a matter of the composer that you use (although I
thoroughly agree that
> the NS Mail Client is no good).
Every composer I've encountered has a line length setting for outgoing msgs.
Set it at 70 chars or so (conservative, but safe), and you should be fine for
text that *you* write. The problem seems to arise mostly when quoting others,
or receiving msgs from others; and there the solution is simply to drag your
window wider, until received|quoted lines that are wrapping cease to wrap
anymore.

May I recommend the Polarbar mailer? It is freeware, Java-based, very actively
developed, totally shaped by user suggestion, and artfully coded. Fast too. It
is the very *model* of receptiveness to user input/criticism/bug reports. It is
100% immune to virii (unless you do something truly dumb, like move some
suspicious attachment over to Outlook and open it there). It runs under every
OpSys for which there is a Java machine. The user constituency consists very
prominently of techies and programmers -- in other words, demanding people, who
make pointed remarks in the lively Email newsgroup. I've used it for 4 or 5
years (originally it was called J Street Mailer, and was launched by Innoval,
the folks who wrote the fabulous Post Road Mailer for OS/2). Although I
frequently use my XyShell SENDMAIL and GETMAIL utils for quick-and-dirty sending
or msg reading direct from XyWrite, Polarbar remains my standard workhorse.
Polarbar has inter alia an unwrap command, which removes all s from selected
text, then reformats it to conform to your own line length preferences. NS
sucks bigtime -- by far the least versatile Emailer I've ever seen.

www.polarbar.org
www.polarbar.net

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