From kde-bugs-dist  Sun Apr 30 00:31:08 2000
From: Don Sanders <don () sanders ! org>
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 00:31:08 +0000
To: kde-bugs-dist
Subject: Bug#3118: #3118: reply to - "new line" ist lost
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-bugs-dist&m=95705493629311

> hitting "reply to" comes up with all the text in ONE (endless) Paragraph, 
> then new-line characters seem to be lost.

If you prefer word wrapping to be set at 60 character per line and someone 
sends you mail with 80 characters per line then normally KMail will honor the 
word wrap set by the sender and set the word wrap to 80 characters.

This is a problem for (non standards conformat) mail sent from some mailers 
that send entire paragraphs on one line, as they can contain hundreds of 
characters per line. KMail attempts to render these mails correctly in the 
reader window but resists sending similarly ill formatted mails.


What you can do is turn on settings->composer->use smart quoting. This will 
'intelligently' reformat the entire message you reply to with your preferred 
word wrap setting (instead of using the senders word wrap length), it handles 
quoting correctly. 

I use this setting myself and are extremely pleased with it, it should be 
made the default I think.

I think KMails behaviour is correct so I will close this bug.

BFN,
Don.