[Design] url wrapping in email (Was: High End Email)

[petite_abeille]

On Saturday, Mar 8, 2003, at 23:23 Europe/Zurich, David Jeske wrote:

> Speaking of high-end email. No email client (Chandler included) should
> wrap long URLs. For some reason Apple Mail and Outlook Express both
> insist on doing this, breaking the URL for many clients.

Well... even if Apple's Mail was not doing it, some MTA along the way 
would most likely wrap long lines anyway:

"There are two limits that this standard places on the number of
characters in a line. Each line of characters MUST be no more than
998 characters, and SHOULD be no more than 78 characters, excluding
the CRLF."

-- RFC 2822, 2.1.1. Line Length Limits, April 2001
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2822.txt?number=2822

> That said, Chandler might choose to implement a scheme similar to the
> one I just added to our mailing list archive software to patch back
> together these needlessly wrapped links:

Nice. Perhaps a "needless" excecise, but this is how it goes :-)

Cheers,

PA.