How is it possible to set a certain width (number of letters) of one line in a e-mail text to send out?
I have been informed by a recipient of my emails that my email spreads too wide and hard to read. Is there any way to set a limit to the width of my text (or number of letters)? Thank you very much for support in advance.
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Hmm. There are places on the Web where the space character isn't allowed, specifically in URLs, and a symbolic representation, such as %20, is used. If you were picking these up, a mail client might not see an opportunity to break the line as offered by a real space character.
However, do these offending lines look OK to you in Thunderbird before you send them off? When I've worked with other users reporting this issue, we couldn't see anything wrong with the sent message and concluded that the problem is at the recipient's end. Does this affect all of your correspondents, or just a select few? Are they perchance using any particular email client or viewer?
Does "Paste without formatting" in Thunderbird work any better for you, compared with going through notepad? Have you tried any more sophisticated text editors such as notepad++?
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standard HTML mail has no line width, vthat is because the text wraps to the width of the container object. This can be messed up by pasting information for a wordprocessor or using a signature that was pasted from such.
Otherwise, windows uses difference carriage return/ line feed arrangement to Apple. So sometime moving between apple products and windows products can see line wrapping problems. There is no reasonable cure for that. It is a fact of Apple and Microsoft design decisions.
Thank you very much. I often copy a text onto a notepad to clear styles (when copying something from websites, for example) and paste to my thunderbird text box. Maybe that is the reason for causing problems, as you said the text could be messed up by pasting information from a word processor.
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Hmm. There are places on the Web where the space character isn't allowed, specifically in URLs, and a symbolic representation, such as %20, is used. If you were picking these up, a mail client might not see an opportunity to break the line as offered by a real space character.
However, do these offending lines look OK to you in Thunderbird before you send them off? When I've worked with other users reporting this issue, we couldn't see anything wrong with the sent message and concluded that the problem is at the recipient's end. Does this affect all of your correspondents, or just a select few? Are they perchance using any particular email client or viewer?
Does "Paste without formatting" in Thunderbird work any better for you, compared with going through notepad? Have you tried any more sophisticated text editors such as notepad++?
pasting to notepad will append windows carriage controls if notepad is set to wrap text. Or at least it used to.
Thank you very much. I didn't know I could "Paste without formatting", and it works just fine. It was great to know such basic but very important tip. Much appreciated.
Also, it looked just fine before sending the texts and only a limited recipients of my emails reported the problem. So it is possible that this could be a problem on their ends.
Anyhow, I am grateful for your comments.