ham-radio-software
Printed e-mails not formatted correctly
- When trying to print emails - On simple text emails, the message does not word-wrap on the printed page. The message can be read on the computer, but when trying to print using the Print button, the rendered message gets truncated at the end of the page instead of rolling over to the following line. Unless you write very short paragraphs, some of your text will be dropped off the right side of the printed page.
Need more information as to what how the e-mail is being created and how it is being printed.
I recall seeing an RFC that is documenting multiple things that e-mail clients are doing wrong with plan-text e-mails.
Microsoft products tend to send quoted printable instead of plain text, and Thunderbird only supports format-flowed.
As I recall from the RFC (I could be wrong) Actual plain text e-mail must be 78 character lines, and I think it needs CR/LF line endings.
Anything sent over e-mail must be MIME encoded to comply with that.
I have not looked at how D-Rats composes messages, but my guess is that it is not doing anything to check to see if it is compatible with the official standards.
Print function appears take the plain text, write it to a temporary HTML and launches an HTML viewing application to print it.
Nothing appears currently done with the message.
Need someone to figure out what the correct behavior should be. Then we would need to figure out how to implement it.