Re: Manual line breaks in emails

On 3/24/26 8:28 PM, Philip Webb wrote:
> 260324 Dave Sizer wrote:
>> I've noticed that there seems to be a trend in the plaintext email community
>> where folks will manually insert line breaks in their messages
>> seemingly to keep line width readable.  What I don't understand is,
>> this is what line wrapping is for and manually inserting the breaks
>> actually makes the mails look horrible on most modern clients
>> that try to do automatic wrapping.
> I read my e-mails with Most in Mutt on a Konsole on my desktop monitor ;
> Most doesn't do wrapping & if it did, I wouldn't want it to.
> Your unbroken paragraph above is awkward for me to read in that way.
> I want to see lines broken into syntactically meaningful parts as above,
> when I can read them easily + fluently.
>
> If people try to read their correspondence on their cell-phones,
> they're asking for awkward results. Cell-phones are for SMS + chatter (smile).
>

I like the way your email looks, as I received it anyway.  I'm not sure 
what Thunderbird may do to it when I hit send.  It's narrow enough that 
I only have to move my eyes but not my head.  When you have a limited 
range of motion due to arthritis, those things get to be important.  
That said, I can't find a setting in Thunderbird to wrap at 80 or 
anything else for that matter.  As I type in a reply, it is a LONG 
line.  I suspect it will be long when the list gets the email as well 
unless your email client forces it to wrap on your end.  Maybe someone 
can tell me if it wraps before sending.  I can't tell if it does here or 
not but suspect it doesn't.  When I check my sent folder, it is as wide 
as the pane will allow.

Anyone know how to tell Thunderbird to wrap?  If so, is 80 a good 
number?  I have also looked for a way to tell Thunderbird to send text 
only to gentoo.org addresses, this list for example.  Seamonkey has that 
but I can't find it in Thunderbird, yet.

Dale

:-)  :-)