Sunday 2010-10-31 20:55 Vegard Øye:
Actually, there exists a technical solution to this problem: Format=Flowed. ... http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2646.txt
Thanks for the background! – I didn't know that. Indeed KMail does not support it. I have just voted for that bug.
(Plus that I would need to come up with a way to distinguish flowed passages from unflowed, since I don't want code fragments and the like to flow. It's not impossible -- I tend to indent code by four spaces, so I could conceivably write a routine in Emacs which overlooks such lines and adds trailing spaces to the rest.)
A quick Google search tells me, IIUC, that it has at least been implemented in an Emacs-based mail client, and that _that_ implementation respects Emacs's filling behavior in that it distinguishes hard newlines from the soft newlines that line filling generates: http://www.gnus.org/manual/emacs-mime_16.html Not sure, however, if that is helpful when merely using Emacs as an external editor for some other mail client. Cheers, Christoph -- Christoph Lange, http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Langec, Skype duke4701