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Re: Disappearing CRs



Well, I didn't want to answer my own question, but...

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/287816

Tools/Options/Preferences/Email Options, and clear the 'Remove extra line
breaks' checkbox.  Works like a charm.

-- 
Tim Boyer
Director IT and Engineering Projects
Denman Tire Corporation
(330) 675-4249
 

> 
> Tim, I have noticed the same problem when dealing with 
> Outlook recipients.  Unfortunately, it means that my emails 
> are often hard to read for those people.  I too think its an 
> Outlook problem, but at the same time, since I can't fix 
> Outlook, I wonder if there's anything can do in Mutt to make 
> Outlook not do whatever its doing with the email.
> 
> Does anyone have suggestions on how to handle this problem?
> 
> Thanks -
> Chip
> 
> 
> On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 12:19:08PM -0500, Tim Boyer wrote:
> > Just to try to appear _slightly_ less stupid...
> > 
> > When I sent this email to the list, it was formatted 
> correctly.  When 
> > I'm reading it on the list, it's not.  Which obviously 
> means it's an 
> > Outlook problem.  Which serves me right.
> > 
> > I'll slink away now...
> > 
> > --
> > Tim Boyer
> > Director IT and Engineering Projects
> > Denman Tire Corporation
> > (330) 675-4249
> >   
> > 
> > > 
> > > I use mutt on a bunch of Linux and Unix systems primarily to toss 
> > > files from one system to another, and I've run into an 
> odd problem.
> > > 
> > > I'm trying to send a file with the following rsync results:
> > > 
> > > Number of files: 8944
> > > Number of files transferred: 3455
> > > Total file size: 2702230825 bytes
> > > Total transferred file size: 1724095316 bytes Literal data: 
> > > 1724095316 bytes Matched data: 0 bytes File list size: 
> 201181 File 
> > > list generation time: 2.531 seconds File list transfer
> > > time: 0.000 seconds Total bytes sent: 1724660773 Total bytes
> > > received: 76184
> > > 
> > > so I just do a
> > > 
> > > mutt -s 'test' tim<daily_report
> > > 
> > > It _almost_ works.  Some lines turn out perfectly.  Some, 
> however, 
> > > look like they're missing a CR:
> > > 
> > > Number of files: 8944
> > > Number of files transferred: 3455
> > > Total file size: 2702230825 bytes
> > > Total transferred file size: 1724095316 bytes Literal data: 
> > > 1724095316 bytes Matched data: 0 bytes File list size: 
> 201181 File 
> > > list generation time:
> > > 2.531 seconds File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds 
> Total bytes sent:
> > > 1724660773 Total bytes received: 76184
> > > 
> > > sent 1724660773 bytes  received 76184 bytes  802389.84 bytes/sec 
> > > total size is 2702230825  speedup is 1.57
> > > 
> > > If I send it as an attachment, i.e.
> > > 
> > > mutt -a daily_report -s 'test' tim</dev/null
> > > 
> > > it works fine every time.
> > > 
> > > I'd suspect a Unix-to-Windows translation problem, except if that 
> > > were true I'd expect everything to be on a single line 
> always.  As 
> > > it is, most of the lines turn out just fine - just a few are run 
> > > together.
> > > 
> > > Any pointers in the right direction appreciated...
> > > 
> > > --
> > > Tim Boyer
> > > Director IT and Engineering Projects Denman Tire Corporation
> > > (330) 675-4249
> > >  
> > > 
> 
> --
> ====
> Chip Killian
> http://chip.kcubes.com
>