Re: format=flowed

Steve Block wrote:

Anyways I quite a fan of format=flowed in outbound email...

I was wondering if there was any plan to send mail using flowed formatting.

This is something that should absolutely be looked at, yes! The current code is provably capable of breaking at least one SHOULD, and probably capable of breaking a MUST, in RFC2822:

<blockquote cite="http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html"> 2.1.1. Line Length Limits

There are two limits that this standard places on the number of
characters in a line. Each line of characters MUST be no more than
998 characters, and SHOULD be no more than 78 characters, excluding
the CRLF.

</blockquote>

The easy fix here is to apply f=f encoding of outgoing messages. I'm not going to have the time to look into this myself, but I'll be happy to provide guidance and/or conformance testing to anyone wanting to have a go.

For your reference, f=f is described in RFC 2646: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2646.txt

Bob