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From: Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
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Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 03:42:02 -0400
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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