Apple displays flowed text

[Kurt Hackenberg]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 08:12:23AM +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt via 
Mutt-users wrote:

>* Kurt Hackenberg <kh at panix.com>:
...
>> The iPhone mail reader displays flowed text correctly: lines are filled and
>> word-wrapped to fit the screen. It also rotates when you turn the phone
>> sideways.
>>
>> The Macintosh mail reader also displays flowed text correctly, and rewraps
>> on the fly when you change the size of the window.
>
>And the question is?

Mutt can compose and send messages as text/plain format=flowed (RFC 
3676). There was discussion here a while ago about whether and how to 
do that. Opinions varied.

I'll attempt a brief summary of that discussion.

Plain text, with fixed-length lines, is often displayed badly on 
smartphones whose screens are narrower than the line length. Proposed 
solutions:

     Send plain text with very long lines
     Send text/plain format=flowed
     Send HTML
     Tell recipients to turn their phones sideways

Each of those had people for and against it.

The Mutt manual tells how to configure vim to compose text/plain 
format=flowed in coordination with Mutt. I wrote some code to make that 
possible with Emacs, available here:
<http://www.panix.com/~kh/mutt-flowed-text/>

The Mutt manual also tells how to send HTML.

You could look at the list archive if you're interested. Messages from 
the list include this informative header:
List-Archive: <http://lists.mutt.org/pipermail/mutt-users/>