On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 01:18:01PM +0200, Alexander Holler wrote: > Am 09.09.2013 13:02, schrieb Mark Brown: > >makes your mail very hard to read. It looks like your mailer has also > >reflowed Daniel's mail. > That's just wrong. Mail readers should wrap lines, not senders. And > readers can do this since some decades. There's a specific way for senders to request that if it's desired, set format=flowed in the MIME type to tell the recipient that the formatting isn't important. > The reason is obvious: No sender knows the line width the receiver > can display. So, for example, if the sender hard breaks lines every > 80 chars, a reader with a device which just displays 60 characters > at max. will see every second line with at most 20 characters. I > assume you can guess how such does look like. Furthermore there are > still a lot of people which do like to read mails with line length > as long their display is possible to show, and hard breaking lines > on the receiver side does make such impossible. > So the correct behaviour is to not hard break lines on the sender > side and leave that to the reader on the receiving side, as only the > receiving side knows the line width. This doesn't work well with lots of content (like patches) commonly handled in technical contexts - the line breaks actually mean something and it's hard fo the mail client to figure out what is going on unless someone tells it.
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