Re: Manual line breaks in emails

On 2026-03-29, Anna Vyalkova wrote:

> On 2026-03-28, Grant Taylor wrote:
>> On 3/25/26 6:19 AM, Anna Vyalkova wrote:
>>> My emails are formatted this way.
>> 
>> The message that I'm replying to wasn't format=flowed.
>
> This extract from muttrc(5) explains it:
>
>   The option only controls newly composed messages.  Postponed messages, 
>   resent messages, and draft messages (via -H on the command line) will 
>   use the content-type of the source message.
>
> I'm using gmane.io NNTP server to view Gentoo mailing lists but it's 
> just a mirror, so I have to reply by mail. The draft net-nntp/tin 
> creates does not use "format=flowed" and mutt doesn't change it.

(Of course you can reply by mail if you prefer, but it's definitely
possible to reply by netnews too. Check the headers of this message.)

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Nuno Silva