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Old 6 Feb 2022, 09:05 PM   #7
ralphzak
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Quote:
Originally Posted by tenfour
{mentions a particular remove formatting option}
that didn't fix the problem.

Quote:
Originally Posted by hadaso View Post
There is a limit on the length of a line in an email message, and Gmail probably implements the recommendation that the length of a line in email text should be no more than 78 characters.


I think if your usage is for sending carefully structured text to a recipient that is expected to copy it exactly as it is to somewhere else, or at least view it in exactly the form it should look where it will be eventually published, then that text is really an attachment and it is probably more appropriate to send it as an attachment.
Yes that must be it.. That ridiculous RFC!! (if the RFC really thinks it's that important it really should mention an option to override it 'cos I know i'm not sending the email to somebody with some kind of weird badly programmed device that doesn't support word wrap!). Lucky there isn't an RFC saying that a TXT or PDF file can't have long lines because somebody might have a system that truncates the line! How ridiculous.

oh well.
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