On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 08:12:23AM +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt via
Mutt-users wrote:
* Kurt Hackenberg <k...@panix.com>:
...
The iPhone mail reader displays flowed text correctly: lines are filled and
word-wrapped to fit the screen. It also rotates when you turn the phone
sideways.
The Macintosh mail reader also displays flowed text correctly, and rewraps
on the fly when you change the size of the window.
And the question is?
Mutt can compose and send messages as text/plain format=flowed (RFC
3676). There was discussion here a while ago about whether and how to
do that. Opinions varied.
I'll attempt a brief summary of that discussion.
Plain text, with fixed-length lines, is often displayed badly on
smartphones whose screens are narrower than the line length. Proposed
solutions:
Send plain text with very long lines
Send text/plain format=flowed
Send HTML
Tell recipients to turn their phones sideways
Each of those had people for and against it.
The Mutt manual tells how to configure vim to compose text/plain
format=flowed in coordination with Mutt. I wrote some code to make that
possible with Emacs, available here:
<http://www.panix.com/~kh/mutt-flowed-text/>
The Mutt manual also tells how to send HTML.
You could look at the list archive if you're interested. Messages from
the list include this informative header:
List-Archive: <http://lists.mutt.org/pipermail/mutt-users/>
