[MlMt] format=flowed with long lines?
froup
i at froup.cc
Sun May 3 17:00:36 EDT 2026
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.
Best,
Froup
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