On Tuesday, March 4, 2025 5:08:43 AM MST Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Mon Mar 3, 2025 at 9:42 PM GMT, Soren Stoutner wrote:
> > Hence, I propose that we change the expectation so that the sending
> > MUA is not expected to wrap text.
>
> In which case, how can the receiving MUA know which lines are wrappable
> and which are not? Related, how can the sending MUA signal which lines
> are wrappable and which are not?
This is an interesting question based on a presumption that I didn’t know was possible. In a plain text email, is it possible to indicate that certain lines are not wrappable? I know it is possible in an HTML email, but I was unaware of any way of doing so in a plain text email (at least, any generally accepted standard).
For example, on my cell phone I use Thunderbird as my MUA. In portrait mode on my device text wraps at about 40 columns. Are you saying that you can send a plain text email in such a way that Thunderbird or any other MUA on a cell phone will force scrolling left and right to read the lines instead of having the MUA wrap them at the edge of the screen?
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Soren Stoutner
soren@debian.org
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