disclaimer: I have not reviewed this thread in its entirety. Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote on Sat, 2 May 2020 at 12:16:45 EDT in <r8k6dd$2flf$1...@ciao.gmane.io>:
> _Nobody_ I work with uses an email client that properly displays > plaintext as sent by mutt. ... > Most of my family and friends do almost all of their e-mail on phones. > Plaintext is very hard to read on small screans because it doesn't > re-flow to fit the screen width. Forcing people to read plaintext on > small screens is, IMO, inconsiderate. This is not an attribute of mutt or plaintext. It is an attribute of plaintext with a particular kind of fixed line breaks. Personally, I send mail via mutt and do not place hard line breaks at the end of each line, but effectively send every paragraph as a single very long line. (I often compose using Emacs' M-x visual-line-mode.) I think this is not as good as proper format/flowed, but there seem to be technical difficulties making that work reliably, so it's an OK substitute. > Insisting that the world switch from HTML to plaintext for e-mail is > just tilting at a windmill. I think this view is correct. -- jh...@alum.mit.edu John Hawkinson
