[X4U] Why do some images not go through on Apple Mail?

[Doug McNutt]

At 09:37 -0500 4/27/08, Ed Gould wrote:
>The RFC's (I believe) are the ones that the list servs are the  culprit. Or it could be the email client(I don't know) and have given  up the fight.

Don't use format-flowed when you send mail.

Don't use HTML if all you need is a URL or two. HTML is for legitimate advertising and spam. Well... There are real reasons.

Don't wrap lines at all and limit your paragraphs to less than 998 8-bit characters.

Use double returns between paragraphs

You might offend someone who is getting his mail on a teletype machine but you won't be bothered by clients that don't handle "delsp=yes" which is only a couple of years old.

Oh. If your mail client can't handle those preferences - think Apple Mail.app - then find one that does.

List software will usually just send off what you provide. Quoted text will have each paragraph identified with a > symbol but the >'s will not appear on each apparent line as the receiving client displays paragraphs. Send yourself a test and vary the window width. Does the received text wrap to fill the window horizontally? Does this message wrap to your window width? That's really helpful for sight-impaired folks who like to use large fonts.

Yes. There are transfer agents and list servers that will "helpfully" wrap lines to 72 characters, especially in digest mode. That will have to be put up with as you suggest.

If all else fails have a look at <http://tinyurl.com>. Those things work but they always imply a sense of danger when sent from someone you don't know.

<http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3676.txt>

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