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Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on 10/21/53 11:19
Dan wrote:
> Joseph Misko wrote:
>
>> I am using MySQL to serve plain text email newsletters using PHP.
>> I have the text of the emails stored, and I thought the <pre> tag
>> would be my answer. However, that doesn't break at the page
>> width. Basically, I need a tag or option that allows me to keep
>> the paragraph and linebreak formatting, but will wrap and not
>> produce lines a thousand characters long.
>
> If the plain text email was properly formatted to begin with, there
> wouldn't be "lines a thousand characters long"; RFC 2822 imposes
> an absolute maximum line length of 998 characters, but strongly
> suggests keeping lines to 78 characters at the most unless there's
> a really good reason to do otherwise. If it conforms to this, it
> should display well in most normal screen resolutions within <PRE>
> elements.
If the email is to be plain text, there should be no HTML elements at
all, including <pre>, as I see it...
> http://mailformat.dan.info/body/linelength.html
My sites all have contact forms that gather plain text - in long lines
until Return is pressed, send it via PHP as a plain text email, and
the lines wrap normally, according to the receiving email client.
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