Re: `hard-newline' changes trigger format=flowed in Gnus

[David Koppelman]

Reiner Steib <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
>
> the changes related to `hard-newline' seem to provoke undesired
> behavior in Gnus.
[snip]
> When copying some lines from the mail header (in Gnus' message mode)
> into the mail body, some of the newlines seem to be marked as `hard'.
> When sending (or previewing) the message, the function
> `fill-flowed-encode' detects the hard newlines and the whole message
> is encodes as format=flowed which leads to an unexpected output.
[snip]
> I don't know if (and how) this bug should be fixed Gnus
> (`gnus/flow-fill.el' or `gnus/message.el'?) or in Emacs.

This problem is particularly insidious because the sender does not see
the flowed message, only the recipient who might not realize anything
is wrong.