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by skydhash 357 days ago
I think mobile viewing and most marketing email is around that limit. So not really a hard choice to make.
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Mobile is often less than that and any hard wrapping looks absolutely horrid. I mean, hard wrapping in general looks disgusting on anything besides an ancient VT-80, but it looks extra bad on mobile. Only tolerable option for plain text is "format=flowed".
Hard wrapping is nice. My screen is too large for any kind of flowed text so I often have to add the extra margin that is required to get back between 80 and 120 characters. On mobile, you can just rotate the phone.
Sounds like you need a client whose width can be configured. Rather than imposing arbitrary, non-semantic formatting on all messages.
I've had autorotation turned off for a decade, I'm not turning it on for your email. It's a bit odd that plain text proponents don't want HTML imposed on them but are okay with imposing this.
iPhone and the most popular android devices are much less.