On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 03:22:11 -0400 Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>
wrote:

quoted text
> On Sep 15, 2007, at 07:19:01, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 11:50 +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> >> I haven't word wrapped it at all.  The lines appear as whole lines  
> >> in Apple Mail (my email client).  It must be your email client  
> >> that is wrapping them...
> >
> > Oddly, this line is still long in Andrew's reply but wrapped in  
> > yours.  Must be some odd mailer interaction.
> 
> Actually Apple Mail.app sends format=flowed wrapped to 73  
> characters.  So a wrapped line has a single space character right  
> before each 'wrapping' newline.  If your mail client supports  
> format=flowed viewing and sends without format=flowed (like AKPM's  
> mailer appears to), then it will properly unwrap the lines and resend  
> without the wrapping.  Mailers which *DONT* support format=flowed  
> will see the wrapped version.  Normally this is what you want but  
> it's a PITA for patches and logfiles.
> 
> I believe with Mail.app if you attach a .txt file it will be  
> unmangled and sent as "Content-Type: text/plain" and "Content- 
> Disposition: inline", so most email-clients will display it as part  
> of the message.

Ah, thanks for the hint. I've switched mailer to claws-mail-3.0.0 and
hacked the thing a bit so its useful. One of the things I added was a
menu entry for respect_flowed_format. So I can now flip between flowed
and non-flowed with a key.
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