On 3 May 2026, at 14:00, froup via mailmate wrote:
Hi,
I recently discovered [this
article](https://vxlabs.com/2019/08/25/format-flowed-with-long-lines/),
which suggests using `format=flowed` with a maximum line length of
998.
Doing this allows clients that support `format=flowed` to reflow the
long lines while also making bad clients such as Outlook to
dynamically wrap the whole long line at frame boundary to avoid them
interpreting soft line breaks as hard line breaks (since there won’t
be any soft or hard line breaks unless your paragraph is longer than
998 characters).
I’m still using `format=flowed`, and would like to practice this
advice with MailMate. However, I don’t know how to make MailMate
wrap the _raw_ message at 998 characters, or is that even possible. I
tried setting `View > Soft Wrap Column` to 998 but that does not
affect the _raw_ message sent over SMTP.
I’d appreciate any help on this.
The idea of Format=Flowed is that, by soft-wrapping messages at below 80
characters, the message can be treated as non-F=F by clients that don't
understand F=F.
--Randall
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