[ILUG-BOM] Evolution mail client configuration help

[Dhawal Doshy]

Dinesh Joshi wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 07:31 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
>> On 17-Jan-07, at 2:44 AM, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
>>
>>> I'm just trying out evolution as my new mail client. The problem is
>>> that I cant find a option to wrap the lines at 72 characters i.e. I
>>> cant set the wrapping! There is no option to set the wrapping size
>>> anywhere! Anybody using evolution
>> tried it in my redhat days - sucked bigtime, ages to load, huge  
>> memory consumption. Hear it has gone downhill since
> 
> I too used to think it sucked. But as of today its faster than kmail.
> Thats just probably because I'm using Gnome right now instead of KDE.
> But surely someone should be using evolution, right? Or am I the only
> one??? =P

In the 'compose message' window, use "Ctrl+L" to line wrap OR Format --> 
Wrap Lines.

No way (that i could find) to set the number of columns though.