Intrepid: Thunderbird produces automatic line breaks in newly composed plain text emails

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Binary package hint: thunderbird

When composing a new email in Thunderbird, it automatically produces a line break after 80 letters. This makes it very hard to change draft emails. It also produces garbage depending upon which email client the receiver of the message uses.

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PS Please look at this bug also: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/238037. Maybe there is a connection.

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PS II That other bug relates to Evolution, however, maybe it has something to do with the same basic kind of problem.

[Steffen Banhardt (steffenbanhardt)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

It is the intended behaviour to wrap at approx 72-80 characters. This has mainly historical reasons, when the standard terminal was 80 characters wide, but is also better readable. The main problem is, that different mail agents interpret the wrapping characters differently - that can be seen best, when text is quotet and the line gets longer than 80 characters.

But you can change this behaviour in the preferences: In Composition -- General there is the item:
"Wrap plain text messages at [ ] characters". If you insert 0 here, thunderbird won't wrap the line before the window ends.