Format=Flowed

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson <mailbox@gunnar.cc>]

I'm trying to understand the format parameter in text/plain messages, 
and how format=flowed is handled by MHonArc.

This is an extract from RFC2646:
>       Starts          Ends in
>       with            One or             Line
>       Quote           More Spaces        Type
>       ------          -----------        ---------------
>       no              no                 unquoted, fixed
>       yes             no                 quoted,   fixed
>       no              yes                unquoted, flowed
>       yes             yes                quoted,   flowed

According to the table, a line that does not end with a space shall be 
displayed in fixed format, whether it starts with the '>' character or not.

MHonArc seems to put only *quoted* lines that not end with a space 
within <pre></pre> elements, while other such lines are displayed with 
the default font. (The 'nonfixed' argument is not set. Tested with Perl 
5.00503 freebsd and 5.6.1 MSWin32.)

I have tried to follow the code in mhtxtplain.pl for the flowed format, 
but it's too much for me... ;-)  Since I'm using Mozilla Mail, which 
seems to set format=flowed whether I like it or not, I'm extra 
interested in understanding this better.

Anyone who can bring some light on this topic?

/ Gunnar


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