Il giorno sab 1 mar 2025 alle 09:48:36 +01:00:00, Timo Röhling
<roehl...@debian.org> ha scritto:
* 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.”
Quite the opposite!
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)."
In addition to what Timo said, format=flowed also resolves some other
issues like how to unambiguously identifying quoted lines from lines
starting with ">", and others. HTML also solves the same issues, and
more, but introduces its own problems.
https://www.fastmail.com/blog/format-flowed/
Rather than "the little standard that couldnʼt quite make it", I'd
call this article "the standard that we (Fastmail) wanted to support,
but couldn't make it". More than highlighting any particular issue with
format=flowed itself, it just gives their rationale for not supporting
it. Of course, if all you do is writing and receiving HTML emails in an
HTML web application, focusing on plain text formats makes little
sense. It does not look relevant for our mailing lists, though.
