Doug McNutt wrote: > Thunderbird is a modern mail reader that surely has provisions for word > wrapping at the destination. It probably handles it for proportionally > spaced fonts too. > > Does anyone know what preference Eric should select to make it work? Actually Thunderbird does format long lines correctly for reading messages. But when replying, in the composition window the long lines are not wrapped but remain on one line, so reading that window requires scrolling left and right. Eric S.