Re: Rant - Emacs mail is not user friendly

[Stephen Berman]

On Sun, 16 Nov 2014 12:18:41 +0000 "Kelly Dean" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Last problem that I do care about is that Emacs keeps inserting line
> breaks after 72 characters, so I have to switch out of message-mode or
> copy/paste from another buffer to make it stop doing that because I
> can't find the setting to turn it off. Why is it turned on by default?
> Modern email readers do have word-wrap, after all. Even Emacs.

Does customizing message-fill-column do what you want?  (If you have a
message-mode buffer when you change the value, it seems you have to kill
the buffer and open it afresh to get the effect.)

Steve Berman