Re: Change the expectation that emails should wrap at 80 characters
Soren Stoutner <soren@debian.org> writes:
> I agree. Having the sending MUA wrap text creates problems, even with
> efforts like format=flowed that try to hint to the receiving MUA how to
> unwrap the text.
I am getting nerd-sniped here and really should continue ignoring this
thread, but just for the record:
* You are not using format=flowed. (Some other people on this thread are,
but your messages are not.) You are sending your messages as simple
text/plain. You or your MUA is adding a space to the end of each line as
if the message were format=flowed, but it is not marked format=flowed,
so none of that is working.
* You are not wrapping the text part of your messages at 80 columns
currently. You are hard-wrapping them at something like 90 or 95
columns, which is strictly worse than *either* wrapping them under 80
columns *or* not wrapping them at all.
I don't think this was intentional, to be clear, but I believe your MUA is
not working the way that you think it's working.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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