On Monday, March 3, 2025 3:26:36 PM MST Russ Allbery wrote: > Soren Stoutner <so...@debian.org> writes: > > I agree. Having the sending MUA wrap text creates problems, even with > > efforts like format=flowed that try to hint to the receiving MUA how to > > unwrap the text. > > I am getting nerd-sniped here and really should continue ignoring this > thread, but just for the record: > > * You are not using format=flowed. (Some other people on this thread are, > but your messages are not.) You are sending your messages as simple > text/plain. You or your MUA is adding a space to the end of each line as > if the message were format=flowed, but it is not marked format=flowed, > so none of that is working.
I agree. Kmail does not have controls for format=flowed and does not advertise that it supports it, although it appears to have adopted part of the standard. As I have written in other parts of this discussion, I do not feel that format=flowed is the solution, although I have no objection if other people send emails to the mailing list that are format=flowed. > * You are not wrapping the text part of your messages at 80 columns > currently. You are hard-wrapping them at something like 90 or 95 > columns, which is strictly worse than *either* wrapping them under 80 > columns *or* not wrapping them at all. > > I don't think this was intentional, to be clear, but I believe your MUA is > not working the way that you think it's working. That is interesting. I have Kmail set to wrap at 80 columns. However, it wouldn’t surprise me if Kmail has some bug in this regard. Please feel free to submit a bug report to Kmail if you like. From my perspective, the correct result is for this discussion to reach the consensus that there is no expectation that sending MUAs wrap text, at which point I will disable the setting in Kmail to wrap text at 80 columns and, even if Kmail has some sort of bug that is converting 80 columns to 90 or 95 columns, it should never manifest again in any email that I send. -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org
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