It used to be the case that some clients did the right thing with
format=flowed, but if you used quoted-printable "wrapping" to make
really long lines for paragraphs, they would display them using a
horizontal scroll bar. I don't know what the current state of affairs
is. At least with format=flowed, you get a 72-column wrap in clients
which don't support it, which is not so bad in most clients. And in
clients that do support it, it looks good, even on really tiny phone
screens.
It makes me crazy that clients don't support it; it's the simpleist
thing in the world to implement for both sending and receiving, and it
makes editing messages with quotes so much easier.
(BTW: I'd love MM to have the option to send "text/plain;
markup=markdown; format=flowed" and no HTML to certain folks.)
pr
On 14 May 2021, at 14:21, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
On 3 May 2021, at 15:43, Pete Resnick wrote:
Saw this in the release notes for Test Build 5800:
- Changed: By default, MailMate no longer uses the format=flowed
standard. For now, it can be enabled using MmFormatFlowedEnabled if
needed/preferred.
Why the change? There should be more format=flowed in the world, not
less, IMO.
To be honest, I wanted to see if anyone cared/noticed. I'm only seeing
less `format=flowed` in the world and it's not working well for some
MailMate users. They may even be the majority, but they don't know why
they are getting hard-wrapped replies when sending emails using
MailMate which only require plain text (and therefore has no HTML
part).
It's very likely I'll switch it back in some way, but I would like to
find some kind of middleground solution which could work well for most
users most of the time. For example, it would at least make sense to
always use `format=flowed` for the plain text part when HTML is
generated since that is unlikely to be a problem for most email
clients (they either prefer HTML using an HTML editor or they have
proper plain text support).
When sending plain text then it could perhaps depend on whatever
MailMate knows about the correspondent, e.g., the email client used or
the content-type headers seen in the past. It's tricky though since
some email clients may not generate it while they are able to parse
it. Note that Gmail (webmail) can do neither.
But note **I'm not trying to start a discussion on what is
theoretically best here**. I'm only concerned about what works best in
practice by default for all types of users. I'll make sure to provide
an option to force the use of `format=flowed` on all outgoing emails
for any users still believing the world will learn to embrace it. I'm
not really there anymore :(
And yes, the quoted printable encoder in MailMate isn't as good as it
could be (horrible wrapping choices).
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Benny
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