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Re: MHonArc mail archive line wrapping

2011-02-18 01:33:40
On 02/17/2011 23:03, Carsten Bormann wrote:
On Feb 15, 2011, at 21:46, Stuart Cheshire wrote:

(readable E-Mail)

How did you manage to get Apple Mail to properly use RFC 3676, i.e.

        ; Format="flowed"; DelSp="yes"

on the Content-Type?  Apple broke that in 10.6, IIRC.

(Not that solving this problem on the sender side would solve it for all other 
senders on the reader side, but I'd like to solve both.)

Combining format=flowed with wrapping at around 70 columns gives you the best of both worlds. Unfortunately you run into complications when you add PGP to the mix, but otherwise it's a good combination.

Pine (now Alpine) has been doing this (or capable of it) for years. For Thunderbird wrapping is the default, and you can toggle the mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed option to true in the config editor.

The historical reasons that wrapping is useful are still (to some extent) relevant; but we aren't doing anyone any favors by ignoring the new reality that messages are read on a wide variety of devices here in the 21st Century.


hth,

Doug

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