>>It used to be that email clients sent one long line of text, broken >>only [on the sender's end] by hard carriage returns, or paragraphs. >>As i compose this text, here, in Eudora, I can stretch the window >>so that it spans two monitors and there is no 'wrap' at all. Except >>for the paragraph 'commands'. > >You see the text in your composing window wrapped to the window >width. However, somewhere you have a wrap column parameter specified >because your message came through wrapped at column 72. If you look >at the mailbox in a text editor, you'll see the linebreaks. >However, your Eudora sent the message as format=flowed, so my mail >client (as do others), removes the line breaks and flows the text >within the display window on the screen. >-- >Dennis Fazio >dfz at mac.com Thanks Dennis, I checked in Settings, and sure enough, under Sleek text & Display there was an automatic 'hard' return at 76 columns. Quoted text was set to display at 80 characters. I'm curious to see what the next incoming message [that contains 'quoted' text] looks like. I changed the automatic hard wrap to 120, and reset quoted text to 120. I haven't even gone into the eudora-X-settings yet. cheers, ~flipper