Re: Format=Flowed

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson <mailbox@gunnar.cc>]

Earl:
> Added "disableflowed" option to disable the flowed data 
> conversion.

Gunnar:
> Why?

Earl:
> Possible reasons:
> 
> * Bugs in the flowed conversion. ...
> 
> * The flowed formatting does not render well in text-based clients.
>   ...
> 
> * Performance. ...
> 
> I also think it is good to give the user as much control as possible
> on how their archives look.

Thanks for those explanations; they all make sense to me.

I just read some bugs as regards the Mozilla mail client, and relalized 
that there are at least one more good reason: The sender is not always 
(=typically not?) aware of whether the message is sent with the 
format=flowed setting or not.

/ Gunnar


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