2.7 Flowed text

The Emacs MIME library will respect the use-hard-newlines variable (see section `Hard and Soft Newlines' in Emacs Manual) when encoding a message, and the "format=flowed" Content-Type parameter when decoding a message.

On encoding text, regardless of use-hard-newlines, lines terminated by soft newline characters are filled together and wrapped after the column decided by fill-flowed-encode-column. Quotation marks (matching `^>* ?') are respected. The variable controls how the text will look in a client that does not support flowed text, the default is to wrap after 66 characters. If hard newline characters are not present in the buffer, no flow encoding occurs.

On decoding flowed text, lines with soft newline characters are filled together and wrapped after the column decided by fill-flowed-display-column. The default is to wrap after fill-column.

mm-fill-flowed

If non-nil a format=flowed article will be displayed flowed.