72601 - format=flowed / text wrap / mail client annoyance

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 71110

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Description

[Deb Richardson [:dria] (plz NEEDINFO)]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22 i686)
BuildID:    2001031213

When using mozilla mail I have to have to set the window to be very wide because
of all the columns in the mailboxes.  Because of the format=flowed thing, when I
receive mail that has been sent using mozilla, the messages are displayed as if
they didn't have line breaks -- not wrapping at a nice and readable 72 character
point, but instead stretching all the way across the mail window.  But you
already knew that part.

The problem is that I find it difficult to read text on a screen when the lines
are significantly longer than 72 characters, so I find this pretty annoying.

My enhancement request (to cut to the chase) is for there to be a check box
somewhere where I can have format=flowed text, well, not flow.  I want my line
breaks back.  :)

Thanks.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Having to fill this bit in for an enhancement request is silly.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

duplicate of "need pref to set message view pane width separate from window
width (for format=flowed, esp)"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 71110 ***

Comment 2

[esther]

verified dup