I have to say that I'm baffled at the perverse pride that people seem to take in being so technically backward that they're unable to handle the mail that 99% of the world uses today. While not being a fan of overdecorated HTML and endless font changes, and strongly preferring a mail program that lets me keep my fingers on the keyboard, I can deal with it. (I use Alpine, keep meaning to take another look at mutt.) I remember how to punch drum cards, but I have no interest in using one to send mail in 2012. For the large majority of mail that is written in paragraphs rather than tables, line wrapping is a useful feature, regardless of the character set, particularly for those of us who sometimes read our mail on a tablet or phone while changing planes. For mail that is a table and stuff has to line up in columns, use HTML tables. That's what they're for. R's, John PS: Yes, this is top posted. You can deal with that, too. >Unfortunately there's some stuff going around that line >wrapping with hard line terminations is retrograde and goes >back to punch cards. I guess that's probably true but >aside from the fact that I'm retrograde and go back to >punch cards, myself, application line wrapping and flowed >text don't deal well (yet) with multiple character sets, >fonts, etc. and I'll take readability over application >purity every single time.