Re: Line wrapping and message retrieval in Icedove.

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:57:45 -0700, Peter Easthope wrote:

> Two elementary questions about Icedove usage.  Answers are not obvious
> in Account Settings or in Preferences or with Google.
> 
> Can the length at which a line is wrapped automatically be adjusted? I'm
> inclined to set the auto-wrap length to infinity.  Auto-wrapping is
> particularly troublesome when it breaks a URI.

This is worth reading:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Mail_content_types#Plain_text
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Mail_content_types#Disabling_paragraph_flow

> For almost every message, there is a notice that the header was
> retrieved and not the body.  A click on a link is required to see the
> message body.  Can the criteria for direct retrieval and display of the
> message body be adjusted?  Say for example, show every message up to 5
> kB in size.

You mean for IMAP accounts, right? 

This has never happened to me but again, this set of articles (also at 
the bottom, "IMAP: advanced account configuration") can be useful:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/IMAP

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón