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On 4/2/2012 3:12 AM, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:

> I can't find any HTML in what I posted, so HTML is not the problem. A
> difference could be the content type. I had in my posting:
>
>    Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed
>
> Another one titled "Pipelining in Python", where TB doesn't mess up the
> formatting, has:
>
>    Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> Searching the web turned up [1], the gist is that "format=flowed" means
> that your mailer is allowed to move linebreaks and quotation signs (">
> ") as it wants. Which is not what I meant. Some more search turned up
> [2], which tells us how to disable this. Go to the settings, advanced
> section and find the button that fires up the raw configuration editor.
> There, locate the key mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed and change the
> according value to false.
>
> # Checking...
> if this.worked:
>      hurray("I didn't even have to close the message in writing")

Looks great!
I never knew about that setting.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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unittest: assertRaises() with an instance instead of a type Ulrich Eckhardt <ulrich.eckhardt@dominolaser.com> - 2012-03-28 14:28 +0200
  Re: unittest: assertRaises() with an instance instead of a type Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-03-28 18:07 +0000
    Re: unittest: assertRaises() with an instance instead of a type Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-03-29 12:55 +1100
      Re: unittest: assertRaises() with an instance instead of a type Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-03-29 06:35 +0000
      Re: unittest: assertRaises() with an instance instead of a type Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-03-29 08:55 +0200
      Re: unittest: assertRaises() with an instance instead of a type Steve Howell <showell30@yahoo.com> - 2012-03-28 22:50 -0700
    Re: unittest: assertRaises() with an instance instead of a type Ulrich Eckhardt <ulrich.eckhardt@dominolaser.com> - 2012-03-29 09:08 +0200
      Re: unittest: assertRaises() with an instance instead of a type Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-03-29 09:48 +0200
      Re: unittest: assertRaises() with an instance instead of a type Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-03-30 02:45 +0000
        Re: unittest: assertRaises() with an instance instead of a type Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2012-03-30 10:45 -0700
    Re: unittest: assertRaises() with an instance instead of a type Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2012-03-29 08:35 -0700
      Re: unittest: assertRaises() with an instance instead of a type Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-03-30 02:53 +0000
  Re: unittest: assertRaises() with an instance instead of a type Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-03-28 14:26 -0400
    Re: unittest: assertRaises() with an instance instead of a type Ulrich Eckhardt <ulrich.eckhardt@dominolaser.com> - 2012-03-29 09:28 +0200
      Re: unittest: assertRaises() with an instance instead of a type Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-03-29 11:04 -0400
    tabs/spaces (was: Re: unittest: assertRaises() with an instance instead of a type) Ulrich Eckhardt <ulrich.eckhardt@dominolaser.com> - 2012-03-29 09:18 +0200
      Re: tabs/spaces (was: Re: unittest: assertRaises() with an instance instead of a type) Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-03-29 08:49 -0400
      Re: tabs/spaces Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-03-29 11:16 -0400
      Re: tabs/spaces Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-03-29 11:25 -0400
        Re: tabs/spaces Ulrich Eckhardt <ulrich.eckhardt@dominolaser.com> - 2012-03-30 09:05 +0200
          Re: tabs/spaces Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-03-30 08:47 -0400
            Re: tabs/spaces Ulrich Eckhardt <ulrich.eckhardt@dominolaser.com> - 2012-04-02 09:12 +0200
              Re: tabs/spaces Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-04-02 03:42 -0400

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