Gmail – Some Incoming Messages Do Not Word Wrap

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I've noticed that in Gmail some incoming emails do not word wrap. This is quite annoying as I have to navigate the cursor horizontally to read the message. Some people think that the sender's email client puts <pre> tags in the message.

However interesting, they don't say what could be done about it.

I'm running Firefox 12.0 on Kubuntu 11.10

Any ideas on how to wrap these emails?

Best Answer

When this happens to me, I can usually view the message text by zooming out (CTRL-). I can then click on the message options menu (down-arrow at top right of message) and select "Message text garbled", which opens a new window with just the text version of the message (not the html version). For more detail, select "Show original".