Re: Re: Manual line breaks in emails

On 3/28/26 4:19 PM, Dale wrote:
> I set mailnews.display.disable_format_flowed_support to true and that 
> makes it wrap in the message pane no matter how wide the pane is.

That's the behavior that I'm used to.

> When I narrow the message pane, it also narrows the pane with subject, 
> email and all that.  That pane I need to stay the same.

Fair enough.  I can appreciate that.

You can also open the message to read in a new window and get the same 
reflowing effect when re-sizing that message window.

> It took me a while to get that just right.  Now I have the massage 
> pane like I want as well, wrapped and not wide. The part I'm typing 
> is wide but I can likely deal with that.  At least I can read messages 
> without hurting my neck so much.  Saves wear on my chair as sometimes 
> I have to twist it around some.

:-)

> Wrapping in the composer part would be nice but I'm hoping my change 
> above doesn't affect what you receive tho.

I believe that the message composition window will soft wrap at 
approximately the number of characters set.  But the lines will be 
unwrapped / re-wrapped when displayed.

You should be able to save the message as a draft and view what it will 
look like in the Drafts folder.

> Does this message look the same to you on your end?  If it changes, 
> well, need to find a new plan.  ;-)

The message that I'm replying to looks like it used format=flowed correctly.

> :-)  :-)

:-)

> P. S.  I just recently switched to Thunderbird from Seamonkey.  So this 
> is a fairly new setup with a new user.

Fair enough.

I believe that both Thunderbird and Seamonkey share a fair bit of 
lineage back to Netscape Composer in the '90s.  I'm not sure how far 
they have diverged from each other.  I know that they have diverged from 
each other some.



-- 
Grant. . . .