[MlMt] Outlook and format=flowed

[Alex Abdo]

On 17 Oct 2019, at 4:22, Charlie Clark wrote:

> Which version of Outlook is this?

16.16.12 (190715) on a Mac

> I haven't seen any e-mails from customers or colleagues suggesting 
> that they have problems with format=flowed. In fact, it sounds to me 
> more like something is ignoring format=flowed and adding linebreaks, 
> which format=flowed should avoid.

I think this is exactly correct. Outlook isn’t implementing 
format=flowed in displaying emails that I send to my colleagues, and so 
the result is that Outlook is adding hard line breaks and thereby 
mangling my emails. And the problem seems to compound after a series of 
replies.

One solution would be to allow Mailmate users to disable format=flowed 
(i.e., to not include it in the content-type header). That would prevent 
Mailmate generated emails from getting mangled by mail clients that 
don’t implement format=flowed.

Here’s another solution I’ve seen proposed:

https://vxlabs.com/2019/08/25/format-flowed-with-long-lines/

Thanks,
Alex