email and wrapping
How do you define "wrap properly"?
Let's say you are using Ms Outlook and have the Plain text settings = Automatically wrap at 76 characters when sending (can be between 30 and 132), then the text will look OK in the recipient's email client - except if the recipient uses a window smaller than what's needed for 76 chrs, and the text will look like:
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Solution: use a smaller value (use 30 and people will hate you )
The value 76 is from the time when the width of computer screens were 80 characters (and before that IBMs punch cards had 80 columns...)
I guess there's still someone using a mail client that cannot wrap the lines automatically, so if you find a way to avoid the line breaks (using html format in Outlook?), then they will recieve one very very long line
When sending email through a website, the possibility to control the text wrapping depends on what component you are using
I think CDONTS.NewMail uses the 76 chr alternative and there's no way to change it - please correct me if I'm wrong. You can use BodyFormat = 0 (html), of course
jofa
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