> > - If you want to have text/plain email "nicely formatted" for non-nmh > > users, it seems like your only portable choice is to use > > quoted-printable and make each paragraph one long line. > >How would I go about trying that with mh now?
Use your favorite editor to make each paragraph a long line. mhbuild will automatically encode your message as quoted-printable (unless, of course, you did something like put "-maxunencoded 998" in your .mh_profile for some ridiculous reason). > > Don't get me wrong, plain old 72-column text/plain email is still readable > > by everyone; it's just going to look ugly on modern MUAs. Whether or > >Well, it only looks ugly if the recipient's screen is narrow. (I >think.) But since no one uses anything but a phone these days, I guess >that's not much of an "only'. Maybe we just need a "read this in >landscape mode" flag. ;-) One of Hymie's complaints was that his messages came out looking "chopped" to people; I'm not sure if that's because the recipient's display is wider or narrow than 80 columns. I think things won't look "normal" for those people unless we find some way to indicate to the recipient, "Please autowrap these paragraps as appropriate". As far as I can tell, the two ways to do that are "make every paragraph a long line using q-p", or "generate HTML email". --Ken
