Feature Request: {Composition} Line Wrapping

[rahtgaz]

Particularly certain mailing lists and newsgroups have ad-hoc rules for line wrapping that I would like to conform. However FossaMail has no option to enable automatic line-wrapping/splitting at a certain number of characters in its composition window, or (better yet) as an option based on the receiver address. My messages end up going without any line wrapping of any kind, while my forum mates make nicely compliant formatted posts.

It's probably a bit of pain to implement. But is this feature something you would consider?

[Moonchild]

I'd certainly consider it. Do you happen to know if Thunderbird has implemented such an option already that we could port across? No need to invent the wheel twice, and all.

[rahtgaz]

I'd certainly consider it. Do you happen to know if Thunderbird has implemented such an option already that we could port across? No need to invent the wheel twice, and all.

While trying to answer your question, I came under the feature that in Thunderbird allows this. But because it was being controlled by a setting in the Config Editor, to be sure I looked for similar settings under FossaMail. And there it was. As it happens, this is already implemented in FossaMail.

mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed;false
This will make sure FossaMail will replace any soft wraps in the composition window with line breaks before sending the message (for plaintext messages only). This is exactly what I wanted

mailnews.wraplength;72
Sets the line length.

Admittedly it would be much better if I could alter the defaults on a message basis. Maybe I wanted to send wrapped lines on some email and not on another. But as it is, it's not bad either.

[gcgriswold]

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