[Alpine-info] Re: Gmail server problem with Alpine

[Mike Miller]

On Sat, 7 Mar 2009, Eduardo Chappa wrote:


> On Sat, 7 Mar 2009, Mike Miller wrote:

>

> :) Now I can summarize some results:

> :)

> :) (1) When format=flowed, Alpine adds an additional space, as it should

> :) (fulfilling RFC 3676 recommendation), at the beginning of any line that

> :) already begins with a space.

>

> Not to be picky, but the word recommendation is actually a requirement. 

> The RFC uses the word "MUST", not "SHOULD". The usage in the RFC of 

> those words is the same as in the English language, and when written in 

> capital letters, they have the same meaning than it English.


Good to know.  Thanks.



> :) (6) If the message is replied to, Alpine will delete the extra space,

> :) and it will also delete the space to the right of that space (at least

> :) when I do it, with my settings, which included format=flowed).

>

> It seems that you use "> " as your quote string. Unfortunately, that is

> not supported by RFC 3676, so Alpine must remove the space after the ">",

> that is, it uses ">" as your quote string, despite your wishes.


I guess I didn't express a wish except by accepting Alpine's default 
behavior:

Reply Indent String = <No Value Set: using "> ">

So Alpine is using "> " most of the time except when a line began with a 
space.  For those lines it changes to ">".  Is that it?  Does that make 
sense?  Is that really what the RFC requires?  Maybe I should change it 
explicitly to ">" to see how that goes.



> I hope this helps.


It helps a lot but it is really pretty complicated.  I just want my email 
to work and not mess things up so that the recipient sees something 
different than the sender.  Strangely, that is very hard to arrange.

Mike