Crash on sending mail resolved

[Gaelyne Gasson <gaelyne videocam net au>]

G'day Peter,

Sorry I'm so behind on responding to this Email - 

On 13 Dec 2001 07:35:05 AM balsa-list-request@gnome.org wrote:

> From: Peter Bloomfield <PeterBloomfield@MindSpring.com>
> Subject: Re: Crash on sending mail resolved
> 
> On 2001.12.12 04:38 Gaelyne Gasson wrote:

> > My only current curiousity is that something is mangling my butterfly 
> > - the X and O in the center line up in my signature file and appears 
> > correctly when composing mail but when I view any mail I've sent 
> > these are no longer lined up. I've also noticed blank lines for 
> > paragraphs that exist when composing messages sometimes 'disappear' 
> > after the mail is sent.  (This is viewing the messages both on my own 
> > computer and another completely different OS that my workmate next to 
> > me uses).  Is there another library I'm missing that's causing the 
> > problem or a known bug? Cheers,

(Butterfly snipped for brevity) 

> The butterfly looks fine on my screen--quite pretty, in fact!

Thanks 

> If you're using a fixed width font, the only feature that I know of 
> that might mess around with the layout of your messages is the 
> `format=flowed' code. (I note that you have it enabled--thanks! It 
> makes multiple quotings much easier to follow.) Leading spaces are 
> treated carefully to preserve line layout, but it's certainly possible 
> that they're not handled exactly right. You could try (separately and 
> jointly) turning it off for receiving and sending, and see if that 
> makes any difference.

I've turned this off, and it did seem to give an improvement.

> Blank lines can also be trimmed, at times, with f=f turned on for 
> sending. If you enter text continuously, spaces preceding a `Return' 
> are deleted. That makes it a hard line-end, which marks the end of a 
> logical paragraph. Two consecutive `Return's (separated only by spaces) 
> give a blank line. However, if you back up and enter some more text at 
> the end of a paragraph, ending with a space, the space *isn't* deleted, 
> and the `Return' is treated as a soft line-end, which will be ignored 
> when the text is wrapped for sending. That may be what you're seeing. 
> You can preview the effect of wrapping by selecting `Edit->Wrap Body'.

Thanks for this - as it turns out I do edit text after writing and many of my
paragraphs had been ending with two blank spaces.  These details helped solve
the problem.  Thanks!



Cheers,
Gaelyne


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