[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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