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Problems with text alignment

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lucanardi93
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Dear community, I am using Mozilla Thunderbird 68.9.0 but I also had the same problem with other previous versions. I use it with some gmail accounts and I have a problem with text alignment.

If I write a single sentence on a line, once the email is sent the sentence can be splitted into more lines.

Something like: "My name is Luca and I like Mozilla Thunderbird even if there is a problem with text alignment"

becomes

"My name is Luca and I like Mozilla Thunderbird even if there is a problem with text alignment"

Inside Thunderbird this line break is not shown, but the receivers see it and I can see it with webmail, so I send emails that appears strange in alignment.

How can I fix this?

Thank you so much, Luca

Dear community, I am using Mozilla Thunderbird 68.9.0 but I also had the same problem with other previous versions. I use it with some gmail accounts and I have a problem with text alignment. If I write a single sentence on a line, once the email is sent the sentence can be splitted into more lines. Something like: "My name is Luca and I like Mozilla Thunderbird even if there is a problem with text alignment" becomes "My name is Luca and I like Mozilla Thunderbird even if there is a problem with text alignment" Inside Thunderbird this line break is not shown, but the receivers see it and I can see it with webmail, so I send emails that appears strange in alignment. How can I fix this? Thank you so much, Luca

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Not quite sure I understand, but maybe this is an issue with text wrapping: you create a message that displays long lines, but if there's no html content, the message is sent as plain text, and text wraps to the default of 72 characters. Open Options/Advanced/General/Config. editor and double-click the preference mailnews.wraplength and change the value to 0 (zero). That will make plain text messages wrap to the window width. If you send a message and view it in webmail, does the appearance change?

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lucanardi93
lucanardi93 Question owner

Sorry the second sentence was:

"My name is Luca and I like Mozilla Thunderbird even if there is"

"a problem with text alignment"

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Chosen Solution

Not quite sure I understand, but maybe this is an issue with text wrapping: you create a message that displays long lines, but if there's no html content, the message is sent as plain text, and text wraps to the default of 72 characters. Open Options/Advanced/General/Config. editor and double-click the preference mailnews.wraplength and change the value to 0 (zero). That will make plain text messages wrap to the window width. If you send a message and view it in webmail, does the appearance change?

lucanardi93
lucanardi93 Question owner

Perfect, this worked for me! Thank you so much