mail formatting problems

[Darrell McCauley]

[sorry for the non-grass noise, but it seems that every
 mailing list that I've ever been on needs a lesson on
 Netiquette/Usage of Mail Software]

Agustin Lobo (lobo at Jasper.Stanford.EDU) writes on 15 May 93:

>About the return, I use to do it. Actually I do it now
>and now
>Tell me if it works (please just mccauley). I'm using the mailtool and I never
>have any problem with anybody's message. I have no idea on what fmt(1) or fill-
>region are: mailtool is a "buttons tool". I hit return once again.

Agus, 

I don't know much about 'mailtool' (I don't usually encourage
its use), but I believe that if you add the following line
 set sendmail=fmt_mail
to your .mailrc file it will alleviate problems. 

>Thanks again, sorry for the inconvenience.

No big problem - its just that some people's mailreaders don't clip
lines. To see what I'm talking about, pop up textedit (or compose
a message with mailtool), avoid hitting any 'returns', and select
"View", "Change Line Wrap", "Clip Lines".

We now return to your regularly scheduled 4.1 compilation problems.

--Darrell