Re: Manual line breaks in emails

On 2026-03-30, Dave Sizer wrote:

> On Sat, 28 Mar 2026, 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.  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.  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.  Does this message look the same to you on your end?  If it
>> changes, well, need to find a new plan. 
>> ;-)  
>> 
>> Dale 
>> 
>> :-)  :-)  
>> 
>> P. S.  I just recently switched to Thunderbird from Seamonkey.  So
>> this is a fairly new setup with a new
>> user.  
>>
>
> This is the first chunk of text I have gotten from you Dale that is 
> actually flowing correctly on my client. All of your other mails have come 
> across as hard-wrapped for me.
>
> I'm having a tough time completely following this thread, but does that 
> line up? Did you enable format=flowed for only this mail?

There have been other e-mails from Dale which were already using
format=flowed, including [1], as I noted in [2].

[1] news://news.gmane.io/[email protected]
    https://public-inbox.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/[email protected]
    
[2] news://news.gmane.io/[email protected]
    https://public-inbox.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/[email protected]

But this one is a multipart message. If your client is displaying only
this one with flowed paragraphs, maybe it's still not enabling reflowing
and you're seeing something different because it's the text/html part?

-- 
Nuno Silva