Gmail inserting line breaks

Doc

Whenever I write something in gmail and send it out, it comes out like this:

Did you hear that Jeff Gerstmann, Gamespot's head editorial guy, was
fired over giving Kain and Lynch a poor review because it pissed of
one of their big advertisers, Eidos? Management denies that was the
cause, but they have removed his review of the game from the site, so
it seems apparent that it was at least a factor.

None of those line breaks were in the text that I typed, either gmail or firefox are inserting them after I submit it. How can I get it to stop inserting line breaks? I get replies from friends who use gmail and it's never formatted like this.

Jasconius

Did the e-mail go through someone who was using Yahoo?

I see that a lot when I communicate with people who are using Yahoo Mail.


When I send a Gmail to myself, it never line breaks.

Doc

Sent to myself with no line breaks, and it came back like this:

I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were
probably saving for breakfast. Forgive me they were delicious so sweet
and so cold.

Doc

Update: it breaks off the text exactly the same if I am using firefox or ie.

Fats

The plain text setting started doing that, for whatever reason. Click rich formatting at the compose mail screen and it will stop.

Jasconius

*edit*

He's right, plain text is doing that.

Doc

weird. I'll just use RTF from now on, I guess.

Jinn

holy shit this has been happening to me forever

i thought i was just crazy

tsmvengy

I would assume gmail does this so that plain text e-mails come out formatted correctly on smaller resolutions - so that the e-mail doesn't break the h-scroll of somebody who's running 800x600.

bombardier

I think it enforces a 72 character wide limit for plain text. Annoys the hell out of me as well, but I'd rather use plain text. I have a thing against any kind of fancy formatting in emails.