Sending mail to a global, message too long by 1 and 2965 characters

[Zed]

Hi,

 

So i wanted to send badge tips to a friend, but my message is too long by 1 characters.

Shoot. Let's remove that extra space.

What now, it's "too long by 2965 characters" ? (which i'm pretty sure is the length of the whole thing)

I've heard an image can be worth 2965 characters a thousand words so here it is 😁

 

https://imgur.com/a/lKNFQvo

Sorry, too big to fit as an attachment and can't embed it either.

[Shenanigunner]

The in-game email system makes me long for the sophistication of Prodigy, ca. 1986. 😛

[Ukase]

As a work-around, I will cut and paste the entire email that has too many characters onto notepad, wordpad or something. Then I'll just cut it in half and send two emails. Yes, it's annoying. Unfortunately, that's my only solution. 

[Zed]

That's what i did first and i ended up with this capture.

Guess i need smaller chunks...

[Shenanigunner]

I find Notepad++ the absolutely essential ASCII-editing tool. In this case, it can display characters, with and without line-returns that sometimes matter to text windows and sometimes don't.

 

It makes Notepad look like a toy and doesn't have Wordpad's faults of using non-ASCII encoding.

 

And it's free and well-maintained.

[starro]

Back when I had a SG on live i want to say I have copy+paste / overflowed the email body and there was no graceful recovery.  Along with horrible formatting I just keep the email to sending attachments and brief messages.