Version: 1.13.6 (using KDE 4.6.1) OS: Linux KMail allows to wrap mails. While I hate that, it's a necessity - apparently many mail clients can not handle unwrapped mail properly. Unfortunately, KMail can't handle *wrapped* text very well. To be precise, it doesn't re-wrap text. If you have a wide screen monitor your message view pane still can only be be 80 chars wide and if you have a small screen sentences leave one word on the next line. Mails in a long thread get screwed up threading because words get indeed transferred to the next line making the whole "hide what ppl said previously from 3rd level onwards" not work. So the lack of re-wrapping basically breaks that feature too. Now KNode can re-wrap quoted text in the composer (but only there, not in the viewer). Imho KMail should do that anywhere, any time: in the composer AND the viewer, making the text always fit the window, links work properly even if they are cut of by wrapping etc. There is a number of bugs related to this, the following all have to do with wrapping and are (partially) solved if kmail has smarter (re-)wrapping: 259996 "Wrap columns" setting breaks long links in messeges 62541 The user should be able to disable word-wrapping on the preview window. 78302 links in text emails do not work when they are sent pre-linewrapped 79144 selective (paragraph-wise) word wrap 105485 Auto word wrap feature lost in saved drafts 119677 kmail line wraps inserted file 124555 Autoindent wrapped lines in the composer 151981 smart copy on wrapped, single line select 209030 long URLs with "-" in kmail are broken: are wrapped and the second part doesn't belong to the link 163609 Wordwrap breaks up URLs with dashes ('-') Reproducible: Always
Please note that this is still relevant in KMail2 in KDE PIM 4.7.3+
Thank you for your feature request. Kmail1 is currently unmaintained so we are closing all wishes. Please feel free to reopen a feature request for Kmail2 if it has not already been implemented. Thank you for your understanding.
Instead of creating a new feature request, please confirm here if the wishlist is still valid for kmail2
Yes, this is still valid and I still really very much would appreciate this feature request to be done as pre-wrapped mails still have this nice white space to the right :D
I would also appreciate if someone fixed this issue.
Still an issue with 4:4.9.2-0ubuntu2
Agreed with #6. I do believe I saw proper behavior for a few days right after 4.9.2 hit Ubuntu's Universe repository; but now, the old behavior is back. Should we re-open another of those bugs?
Still an issue with 4.10.2-0ubuntu3, please, really bring this back.
Still an open issue with 4.11.2-0ubuntu1, but since we are screaming against the wall, this really has no importance what so ever, does it?
Please note. Florian, that this never existed in KMail (1 or 2). It is something KNode has, however. Also - importance is in the eye of the beholder. I too would find this extremely comfortable and nice-to-have but I can't copy the KNode code myself. Unless somebody who CAN considers this important, it won't be done - that is unfortunately how Free Software works. Most of the team is busy with fixing bugs, which I greatly appreciate - and speeding up KMail, again, awesome. However, let me try to see if I can interest Laurent Montel, he's doing most feature work atm...
Laurent, perhaps you feel like doing this, considering KNode really is gone now... Or is KMail deprecated?