On Sat, 1 Mar 2025 09:48:36 +0100, Timo Röhling <roehl...@debian.org> wrote: >* Soren Stoutner <so...@debian.org> [2025-02-28 10:53]: >>Format=flowed is being entirely driven by the belief that “We really >>want the sending MUA to wrap text, but it creates horrible problems, so >>here is a cludge to work around it.” >I believe the idea is more like "We want the receiving MUA to do the >line wrapping, but we do not want to break MUAs which cannot do it >(yet)."
I am positively surprised that so many people in Debian still use mutt (it's by far the most efficient way to handle large amounts of e-mail including mailing lists"), so we need to cater for the fact that e-mails are written in an entirely different software (an "editor"¹) than it is consumed in. Greetings Marc ¹ to make it harder, the combination between mail reader and editor multiplies. That was worse back when we had more than one console-based mail reader. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Rhein-Neckar, DE | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 6224 1600402
