Quoting Marc Haber (2025-03-02 11:12:18) > 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.
Good point! > 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. Not sure I follow your remark about "more than one console-based mail reader" as something of the past. Previously in this thread I noticed aerc mentioned, personally I use alot and might migrate to meli, all of which are console-based MUAs (and all three arguably better integrated with notmuch, for those interested in that). - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ * Sponsorship: https://ko-fi.com/drjones [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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