Bug 380904

Summary:	Increase the word wrap column limit
Product:	[Applications] kmail2	Reporter:	Andre Woebbeking <woebbeking>
Component:	composer	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	montel
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.5.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Andre Woebbeking 2017-06-06 18:42:39 UTC

Hi,

today the limit is 78. This is probably a good default (as it's standard?). But why I'm not allowed to enter higher values? VT100 terminals with 80 chars per row were yesterday, today we've displays with up to 8K.


Cheers,
André

Comment 1 Laurent Montel 2017-06-07 04:50:40 UTC

Hi,
see https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2646.txt.
We will generate max length = 79 char.
If we increase it we will send an email which is not the same form as you write.
=> for sure it's not a good idea.
Regards

Comment 2 Andre Woebbeking 2017-06-07 18:33:27 UTC

Well, it's from 1999 (and says "SHOULD be shorter than 80 characters." or "any paragraph longer than 79 characters in total length COULD be wrapped") and even 1999 people had more than 80-column screens. I'd be also fine with a warning like "Guy, this is not standard, it's your own risk" ;-)

You probably know more mail readers than me. If you really think that nowadays it's still a problem to increase the limit I'll cancel this wish.

The only alternative would be to use HTML mails to work around this limitation but I try to avoid them.