Re: Sending mail: line wrapping and quoted-printable encoding

[Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net>]

Hi Radu, emacs users,
* Radu Butoi <rbutoi@gmail.com> [2020-04-25; 20:19]:
> I've recently set up my mail in Emacs, and it works well. Gmail, though,
> doesn't support [1] format=flowed, resulting in the hard-to-read comb
> effect when viewing on mobile, which I'd like to avoid. Doing some more
> research, I see that the quoted-printable encoding (which Gmail does
> support [2], and I've confirmed) can also be used to avoid hard line
> breaks while keeping under the line length limit.

actually I read the two resources you provided as gmail displays
format=flowed formatted emails but does not allow a web interface
user to send such email.

Sine you want to send emails with emacs everything should be fine?


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> More generally, since I'm new to terminal-based email, what is the
> etiquette around hard-wrapping (or not)? Would it be rude to send
> paragraphs as one logical line (wrapped-in-transmission by
> quoted-printable) and expect people to soft-wrap?

I send emails with lines no longer than 65 characters and my mail
client (notmuch/message/emacs) allows me to fill the paragraphs
while I type.  I assume today's smartphones to be more than
capable of showing 65 chars in one line.


Ciao; Gregor
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