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Re: Change the expectation that emails should wrap at 80 characters



On Sat, 1 Mar 2025 09:48:36 +0100, Timo Röhling <roehling@debian.org>
wrote:
>* Soren Stoutner <soren@debian.org> [2025-02-28 10:53]:
>>Format=flowed is being entirely driven by the belief that “We really 
>>want the sending MUA to wrap text, but it creates horrible problems, so 
>>here is a cludge to work around it.”
>I believe the idea is more like "We want the receiving MUA to do the 
>line wrapping, but we do not want to break MUAs which cannot do it 
>(yet)."

I am positively surprised that so many people in Debian still use mutt
(it's by far the most efficient way to handle large amounts of e-mail
including mailing lists"), so we need to cater for the fact that
e-mails are written in an entirely different software (an "editor"¹)
than it is consumed in.

Greetings
Marc

¹ to make it harder, the combination between mail reader and editor
multiplies. That was worse back when we had more than one
console-based mail reader.
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