On Monday, March 3, 2025 11:38:29 AM MST Philipp Kern wrote:
> On 2025-03-03 18:39, Soren Stoutner wrote:
> > On Friday, February 28, 2025 7:30:53 PM MST Mason Loring Bliss
> >
> > wrote:
> >> Looks pretty awful to me. Screenshot attached.
> >
> > Yes, the screenshot you sent shows how ugly it is when my email client
> > wraps sending emails at 80 columns. It is for this reason I think we
> > ought to get rid of that and simply let the receiving MUA handle all
> > wrapping.
>
> I love that people are saying that their clients don't support
> format=flowed and thus we can't mandate them but then we make it the
> problem of the receiver that their MUA is not wrapping properly.
>
> Mine doesn't wrap properly either, especially on wide screens. Neither
> Thunderbird nor Roundcube. 80 characters are perfectly readable,
> long-lines are increasingly annoying to read.
>
> I can see how that part is a "me" problem. But it also worked perfectly
> fine before.
As I wrote in another part of this thread, in 2025 any MUA that can’t wrap received text to the preference of the viewer deserves a bug filed against that MUA. For example, every graphical MUA of which I am aware (like Thunderbird and Roundcube, which you mention) can wrap text to the desired length by resizing the viewable window. If your does not, I would recommend filing a bug report against your MUA.
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Soren Stoutner
soren@debian.org
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