On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 01:31:34PM -0800, Will Yardley wrote: > I feel like mutt should do some kind of sanity checking on the content > when configured to generate format=flowed text. I know mutt's > philosophy is that the mailer shouldn't mangle anything generated by the > editor, but as I understand it, ultimately, vim is not in a position to > ensure that the message is standards compliant before saving.
Another possibility is to have a wrapper around the editor that would take a plain text message and make a format-flowed text from it with some heuristics based on line lengths and avoiding headers. While automatic reformatting has its pitfalls it is simple enough in this case that everyone could easily avoid those pitfalls. Using general purpose editors never worked for me to do format=flowed. Richard --- Name and OpenPGP keys available from pgp key servers
