On Saturday 04 Jun 2011 23:38:09 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 4 Jun 2011 23:09:28 +0100, Stroller wrote: > > My client wraps lines at a perfectly sensible length. > > > > http://linux.stroller.uk.eu.org/Email%20Line%20Wrapping.png > > It's not always a readable length. Long lines are much harder to read, > that's why newspapers use columns. The accepted width was generally > considered to be 2.5 to 3.5 alphabets (not characters because of > proportional type) which matches up rather nicely with the 70-odd > character generally recommended for mail. Strange, on Kmail Indi's text does not wrap as shown in Stroller's screenshot, but extends to the end of the message window just as Stroller's text does. -- Regards, Mick