From: V@nguard.LH   
      
   Allan Higdon  wrote:   
      
   > VanguardLH  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Please don't use excessively long lines (format=flowed).  Configure your   
   >> NNTP client to a maximum line length of 72.   
   >   
   > There is a setting in Opera Mail's Account Properties, in the   
   > "Outgoing" tab, to "Automatically wrap outgoing messages". It's   
   > enabled by default, but it was disabled because I thought it would   
   > break up the really long URLs into two separate lines. It also causes   
   > messages in "Edit" mode to be wrapped instead of using the entire   
   > window width, which I do not want. Linelength = -1 when the setting   
   > is disabled and Linelength = 76 when the setting is enabled.   
      
   Adding newlines into URLs will break them.  Instead of long string for   
   the URL, it gets truncated.  Some clients can try to append multi-line   
   URLs back together, but don't count on it.  Seems some clients will keep   
   the multi-line URL together if you enclose it in angle brackets.   
      
   Max recommended line length is 998 characters.  Keep the URLs to their   
   own [long] line.  If you are concerned that some readers don't have NNTP   
   clients that can handle URLs longer than the window width (the only ones   
   I can think of are those that are command-line clients, not GUI   
   clients), include the long unbroken URL, and a short URL for it.  There   
   are several URL shortening services.  I use https://tinyurl.com/.  You   
   end up with 2 lines for the same target:   
      
   Long URL:    
   Short URL:    
      
   For whatever line length you specify in Opera Mail, you can't configure   
   its preview pane to be wider than that?  That is, with 72-char line   
   lengths, chars for the newsgroup names, and borders, you can't get the   
   Opera Mail window wide enough to show 72 chars in the preview pane?   
   Actually, it looks like your preview pane is already greater than 72   
   chars wide, and they lines wrap before they hit the right-side of the   
   preview pane.   
      
   I've never used Opera Mail.  "Automatically wrap outgoing message"   
   sounds more about fitting lines (wrapping) within the window width than   
   about setting a fixed line length.   
      
   Wasn't Opera Mail discontinued?   
      
   https://forums.opera.com/topic/83523/operamail-where-to-go   
      
   That doesn't mean it stops working just because support and updates   
   stopped.  You might want to ask in those Opera forums on how to   
   configure it to fix maximum line length to 72 characters, and then   
   address whatever wrapping, or lack thereof, in the compose or preview   
   panes.   
      
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