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Answer to the word wrap / import tasks by email issue many have had (sort of)

toritaiyo says:

Ok. So some people have had trouble with importing their tasks by email into rememberthemilk, including me.

Here are some of those:
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/help/2380/#forumpost
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/help/5705/

Yahoo mail is the answer.

the problem is that many email services and clients wrap text by default after 72 characters.
Unfortunately this wrapping turns one task into two :(

This is the case in gmail and surprisingly gmail seems to have no option to change word wrap... :(

I searched help and the forums and no one had an answer. I tried a couple of workarounds. Nothing.

Then I logged into my old yahoo account and sent it and it worked.

Hope this is helpful to someone

Posted at 7:33pm on February 26, 2009

rmcmullan Pro says:

Sadly, when I tried this today it did not work anymore. Has anyone else gotten this to work recently (November 2010).

Posted 1 year ago

rmcmullan Pro says:

Ah, it turns out you have to switch Yahoo mail back to Yahoo Classic (sent in plain text mode) in order to get around the 72 character auto-wrap. It's under Options in the top right corner.

I would still like to see an on-website form for import so we don't have to hack a workaround.

Has anyone else found a modern webmail client that works with the Import e-mail function?

Posted 1 year ago

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