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Bug 200423 - flowed text support
flowed text support
Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
unspecified
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: Future
Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
evolution[composer] evolution[MIME]
: 242213 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2000-07-14 20:21 UTC by Dan Winship
Modified: 2020-01-16 14:36 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Dan Winship 2000-07-14 20:21:14 UTC 
We should support generating RFC2646 flowed text for text/plain messages.

This also implies generating replies slightly different when replying to
flowed originals.
Comment 1 Ettore Perazzoli 2000-09-14 11:36:27 UTC 
What are we going to do about this?
Comment 2 Luis Villa 2001-11-26 18:02:25 UTC 
Is this a 1.2/1.4 thing?
Comment 3 André Klapper 2004-09-02 11:29:08 UTC 
*** bug 242213 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Frederic Crozat 2007-05-31 14:25:41 UTC 
there is an additionnal problem : when replying to "format=flowed" message, composer doesn't wrap quoted lines at all :(
Comment 5 Yury V. Zaytsev 2009-03-07 17:46:08 UTC 
OK, guys, this is ~9 years now. Could somebody please tell me what's the progress so far on this issue?

If there is no progress, then please tell me where should I start looking into it. Particularly I am interested in interpreting format-flowed display. It's super-annoying to receive Apple Mail messages that are wrapped at 65 characters.

I have currently checked out Evolution trunk and trying to figure out where the "display" part of the standard belongs. Am I right that this belongs to the mail component of the shell, or it's a CAMEL/evolution-data-server thing?

I have absolutely no C coding experience and no free time, but at least I could provide something for more experienced Evolutions hackers to base upon.

Thanks,
--Z.
Comment 6 Дилян Палаузов 2018-12-10 11:27:05 UTC 
Ping.

This is one of the features I miss a lot in Evolution, that most other MUAs have.
Comment 7 David Hebbeker 2020-01-16 12:51:33 UTC 
As RFC 2646 is obsoleted by RFC 3676 I have created a new issue: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/issues/757
Comment 8 Milan Crha 2020-01-16 14:36:39 UTC 
Thanks. Let's close this in favor of the GNOME GitLab instance then.