>>>>> "Nick" == Nick Andrew <[email protected]> writes:

Nick> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 11:30:20AM +1000,
Nick> [email protected] wrote:
>> I'm seeing more and more emails that have incredibly long lines.

Nick> I'm confused. You mean a single LF-terminated line is used for the whole $

Yes -- exactly like that (which appear5s in my client as a line of 80
chars then a $ sign at the end to indicate there's more to scroll).

>> I can of course word-wrap, but that breaks quoting,

Nick> I'm using mutt, and the lines wrap around on the terminal but
Nick> when I quote them there's only a single '> ' used, which is
Nick> quite alright. I usually follow the sender's style and so if I'm
Nick> quoting a substantial chunk of text from a single line then I
Nick> need only one '> ' anyway.

I'm more concerned with getting quoted email and resending it with
more quotes.  RFC2646 has a solution --- it's `format=flowed', which
says 
   1.  Word wrap to fit screen
   2.  Lines starting with one or more > chars are quotes, so mark
       each in display as a quotation

>> I'm assuming this is a Windows and Mac thing.  Is there any setting
>> I can get the senders to tweak that will label emails as
>> `format=flowed'?

Nick> Asking senders to change the way they email is usually
Nick> fruitless.

At the moment it's only a few senders, plus many spammers (which I
ignore anyay, after reporting them)

Peter C
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