On Sat, 1 Feb 2020 at 13:39, Patrick Shanahan <[email protected]> wrote:
<snip>
> ps: your chosen email client does not wrap lines so what you see is what
> you get.
> --
> (paka)Patrick Shanahan       Plainfield, Indiana, USA          @ptilopteri

This issue got me puzzled. Out of long habit (especially with linux mailing
list standard practice), I prefer plain text email. Currently (like
Torvalds!) I'm using the Gmail Web Client. This sends plain text email in a
strictly standards-compliant way, setting the line length to a maximum of
78 characters, and (perhaps over-strictly) not applying format=flowed. But
Gmail's standards-compliant plain text email with hard returns at the end
of each line does not play well with mobile device screens that are
narrower than 78 characters: on narrow screens, the text seems to have
alternate long and short lines.

I sometimes use Thunderbird as a mail client. This also sends plain text
emails in a standards-compliant way; but unlike Gmail, it uses
format=flowed, so that when read with a properly configured mail client the
plain text will wrap to the screen size. This is handled correctly by, say,
the iOS Mail app. But the iOS Gmail app does not respect format=flowed, so
the message is displayed in chopped up long and short lines.

The test message I sent was written in Gmail's Rich Text, so that's how
come it wrapped correctly to your screen width.

So the question is: does the darktable-user list ask users to follow the
traditional list practice of not sending formatted email, but posting only
in plain text?

mac

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