At 10:40 PM 10/25/98 -0800, Ashley Yakeley wrote:
But at that point I hardly need
format=flowed, since I can now safely transport lines of any length.
That's not quite right. Format=flowed is a semantic indicator, not an
encoding method.
When you send a long line without saying "format=flowed", the official
semantics (grumble, grumble) are that it's a very long line, and the
receiving mailer should treat it as such (eg, by applying a horizontal
scroll bar or something).
Adding "format=flowed" means that long lines are to be treated as
paragraphs (eg, by wrapping them to the display width).
If you're sending normal text that you want a receiving mailer to present
as wrapped paragraphs, you should use format=flowed, whether or not you
also use a content-transfer-encoding.