[MlMt] format=flowed with long lines?

[Randall Gellens]

On 3 May 2026, at 14:00, froup via mailmate wrote:

> 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.

The idea of Format=Flowed is that, by soft-wrapping messages at below 80 
characters, the message can be treated as non-F=F by clients that don't 
understand F=F.

--Randall
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