Bug 256855

Summary:

lists.freebsd.org/archives/⋯ long lines are sometimes not wrapped

Product:

Services

Reporter:

Graham Perrin <grahamperrin>

Component:

Mailing Lists

Assignee:

postmaster

Status:

New ---

Severity:

Affects Some People

CC:

philip

Priority:

---

Version:

unspecified

Hardware:

Any

OS:

Any

URL:

https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-gecko/2021-June/000064.html

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Screenshot: the tail of a long line is invisible	none
Message source	none
Screenshot: with horizontal scroll bar	none

Description Graham Perrin freebsd_committer

2021-06-27 02:58:55 UTC

Created attachment 226070 [details]
Screenshot: the tail of a long line is invisible

At, for example, <https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-gecko/2021-June/000064.html> and the next in the thread …

Comment 1 Graham Perrin freebsd_committer

2021-06-27 03:06:19 UTC

Created attachment 226071 [details]
Message source

If it helps: the source of the example (as received by me in Thunderbird).

Comment 2 Graham Perrin freebsd_committer

2021-06-27 03:14:06 UTC

Created attachment 226073 [details]
Screenshot: with horizontal scroll bar

The first screenshot was 'full page' by Firefox. 

Here, a truer view of how the e-mail first appeared. 

There's a horizontal scroll bar, which can useful, but not ideal – especially when aiming to speed through a sequence of e-mails.

Comment 3 Philip Paeps freebsd_committer

2021-06-27 08:49:00 UTC

As far as I can tell, the archives format this message exactly as intended.  Eye-parsing the quoted printable gives me the same result, though I admit to being a little fuzzy on all the subtleties.

Did Pipermail treat messages like these differently?

Comment 4 Graham Perrin freebsd_committer

2021-06-27 09:30:31 UTC

Thank you, 

(In reply to Philip Paeps from comment #3)

> … Did Pipermail treat messages like these differently?

Honestly, I'm not certain. 

For comparison with <https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-gecko/2021-June/000064.html>, here is an example from the same sender (Greg V greg at unrelenting.technology) that does wrap: 

<https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2021-May/079727.html>