I gave up on linewrapping emails I transmit several years ago for the reasons you describe, and it has been the right decision.
I have not shaken the feeling that maybe I should learn how to compose format=flowed messages, but I guess it's not worth the trouble -- or at least I never managed to get it to work right. And yes, I toggle M-x visual-line-mode in Emacs while composing, sometimes multiple times, which simulates how the email may be read. -- jh...@alum.mit.edu John Hawkinson Tavis Ormandy <tav...@gmail.com> wrote on Sun, 28 Aug 2022 at 20:28:29 EDT in <teh17c$foj$1...@ciao.gmane.io>: > Hello, long time mutt user here - I've always hard wrapped my lines at > 72 columns for as long as I can remember. > > The problem is popular modern mobile and web-based MUAs don't handle > this and can make unexpected linewrap decisions. It's no issue when > emailing UNIX nerds, but non-nerds think I'm doing something wrong. > > I've seen people convincingly argue it's time to abandon `tw=72` and > never wrap lines manually - newlines are for when you want a new > paragraph. > > I've tested, and this does look a lot better on Android for example... > but it just feels and looks wrong! What's the general concensus on this > issue? > > I find it so weird for my lines not to soft-wrap in a big xterm that > I had to make a vim macro to "fake" wrap them while composing :)
