On Jan 07, 2025, altoid via Dng wrote:
> Hello:
>
> On 7 Jan 2025 at 10:27, Dan Purgert via Dng wrote:
>
> > > ... a firm believer in lines of 80 columns.
> Makes two of us.
>
> And yes, I am *also* seeing a single long line. 8^!
>
> The email client* I have used since 1995 [...]
>
> * Pegasus Mail - by David Harris
> The *only* MS Windows (proprietary but *absolutely* free) application
> I use in my Linux box. Being able to run it under WINE was *the*
> dealbreaker for me to become 100% Linux, for well over 10 years now.
>
> I think it is the best and probably oldest running (1993?) email
> client there is.

Wikipedia states 1989(!).

>
> That said, all this miles long character line width thing is probably
> linked to web mail or HTML mail clients, which I absolutely *loathe*.

They have their place, at least insofar as me getting the few HTML mails
I "want" (okay, I'm forced to accept, but since I *WANT* stuff from
digikey ... ) . One of these days I'll get tired enough of it to finally
get around to fixing Mutt to handoff HTML to lynx or something.

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