[MlMt] Mailmate-sent emails not creating satisfying paragraph spacing in other emailers

[Randall Gellens]

On 27 Feb 2026, at 5:50, Bill Cole wrote:

> Beyond that there is ALSO an issue of how to structure the text of a 
> plain text message so that it is displayed reasonably on screens of 
> all widths, in whatever  font the recipient prefers. The ideal choice 
> would be for all MUAs to support the "format=flowed" attribute 
> (RFC3676) and offer users coherent formatting choices. MailMate does 
> so but many MUAs do bad things with format=flowed messages, as a 
> consequence of Microsoft sabotage and to some degree a failure of web 
> archivers of public mailing lists.

As the author of the Format=Flowed RFCs, I agree. Unfortunately, going 
back to when they first embraced Internet technology, Microsoft 
engineers have a nasty habit of apparently looking only at the examples 
of an RFC and implementing what they think the example means, leaving 
everyone else to implement Microsoft's brokenness less they be blamed 
for incompatibility with Microsoft.

--Randall