Thread:Project:Support desk/Wordwrap in email notifications/reply

Technically it is not necessary to break the body text after 72 signs; main reason for breaking lines after around 70 characters anyway, is improved readability. Some say, 50-60 characters (including spaces) would be ideal, others say 72 would be perfect; it depends.

Without breaking the lines, they would get too long making it hard for the reader to focus on the text. Long lines make it difficult to get an idea of where the line starts and ends. Furthermore it can be difficult to continue with the correct line after a linebreak in large blocks of text. If the lines are too short, the reader will have to travel back to the beginning of the next line too often. Also do people tend to start reading the next line before they finished the previous one so having the danger to miss important words.