One of the major annoyances my company is finding during our internal Thunderbird testing is this freakish behavior:
1) user gets email.
2) user replies to email, text wraps correctly.
3) user forwards email and the text does not wrap at all, but instead runs off the screen horizontally causing annoying readability issues.
Does anyone know why this is? It still appears to be in Thunderbird 0.9. I'm confused as to if it is a bug or by design [ietf.org]. If it's a bug, it's kind of a big one. If it's by design, it's kind of a poor design and there should be an option or preference to have "reply" and "forward" act consistently.
Otherwise, Thunderbird ROCKS -- nice work Thunderbird developers. It's fast, free and just getting better and better with each release.
On a related issue, does anyone understand why doesn't it wrap usenet messages? In my preferences, I have the box checked that asks it to wrap at 72 columns, but it doesn't actually seem to do it when I make a post. (Or maybe it sometimes does and sometimes doesn't? I haven't spent much effort on investigating the bug.)
In general, however, I'm pretty happy with Thunderbird as a usenet client, after using it for a week. I was using pan before, but switched because pan's plonk function is broken (pan crashes
I could, but as a sometime denizen of the Monastery I know that using the correct tool for the job (Pan) is an easier option and avoids unnecessary ork;)
Yeah, I've seen that happen before, both with replies (only from one friend -- seems their Exchange server's sending in a wierd format) and forwards. It drove me nuts for a while, until I noticed the following: (reply or forward first) Go to Edit, Rewrap. This should reflow the text:)
Sounds like a bug. Bugs 265406 and 237558 are related.
p.s. Inline spell check would be nice
Inline spellcheck was implemented [xulplanet.com] for Mozilla Suite [linspire.com] by Linspire recently. It will probably be included in future versions of Thunderbird (not necessarily in 1.0).
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Forward Wrap (Score:5, Interesting)
1) user gets email.
2) user replies to email, text wraps correctly.
3) user forwards email and the text does not wrap at all, but instead runs off the screen horizontally causing annoying readability issues.
Does anyone know why this is? It still appears to be in Thunderbird 0.9. I'm confused as to if it is a bug or by design [ietf.org]. If it's a bug, it's kind of a big one. If it's by design, it's kind of a poor design and there should be an option or preference to have "reply" and "forward" act consistently.
Otherwise, Thunderbird ROCKS -- nice work Thunderbird developers. It's fast, free and just getting better and better with each release.
~jeff
p.s. Inline spell check would be nice
Re:Forward Wrap (Score:2)
In general, however, I'm pretty happy with Thunderbird as a usenet client, after using it for a week. I was using pan before, but switched because pan's plonk function is broken (pan crashes
Re:Forward Wrap (Score:2)
Re:Forward Wrap (Score:2)
format=flowed? (Score:3, Informative)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Though this shouldn't force scrolling AFAIK, at least when I view it in T-Bird.
Re:Forward Wrap (Score:3, Informative)
(reply or forward first) Go to Edit, Rewrap. This should reflow the text
It is somewhat annoying, though.
Re:Forward Wrap (Score:1)
Inline spellcheck was implemented [xulplanet.com] for Mozilla Suite [linspire.com] by Linspire recently. It will probably be included in future versions of Thunderbird (not necessarily in 1.0).