Plain text wrapping/line lengths
Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 10:52 pm
Hi everyone,
A question about line lengths on plain text versions of emails sent with swiftmailer. Thus far I don't have any line length stuff sorted out, and so when I send an email to my gmail account and then click "Message text garbled?" to display the plain text version, all the long lines extend far out past the width of my monitor.
Is it best for me to put in some code to wrap lines to 72 (?) characters before I actually transmit them, or is it just best to send the plain text versions with really long lines and then just let the client wrap them for display? (The fact that gmail doesn't do this, makes me think I should be doing the former).
I couldn't even test this in Outlook; how can i get the plain text version to display in Outlook 2003? If I open the email up (double click), and then choose the Format menu; it has the options for Plain Text and HTML greyed out, with a tick next to HTML; which indicates to me that outlook doesnt think there's a plain text version of the email present.
Any ideas?
Thanks heaps!
A question about line lengths on plain text versions of emails sent with swiftmailer. Thus far I don't have any line length stuff sorted out, and so when I send an email to my gmail account and then click "Message text garbled?" to display the plain text version, all the long lines extend far out past the width of my monitor.
Is it best for me to put in some code to wrap lines to 72 (?) characters before I actually transmit them, or is it just best to send the plain text versions with really long lines and then just let the client wrap them for display? (The fact that gmail doesn't do this, makes me think I should be doing the former).
I couldn't even test this in Outlook; how can i get the plain text version to display in Outlook 2003? If I open the email up (double click), and then choose the Format menu; it has the options for Plain Text and HTML greyed out, with a tick next to HTML; which indicates to me that outlook doesnt think there's a plain text version of the email present.
Any ideas?
Thanks heaps!