diff --git a/components/email/email-viewer.tsx b/components/email/email-viewer.tsx
index c531dec4f..3ce8e5702 100644
--- a/components/email/email-viewer.tsx
+++ b/components/email/email-viewer.tsx
@@ -7,12 +7,12 @@ import { EML_IMPORT_ACCEPT, expandImportableEmails } from "@/lib/eml-import";
 import { TRANSPARENT_BLOCKED_PIXEL, applyNewTabToAnchor, emailIframeCsp, escapeHtml, isExternalResourceUrl, isOpenableLinkHref, plainTextToSafeHtml, sanitizeEmailBodyForIframe, sanitizeEmailHtml, sanitizePlainTextRenderedHtml } from "@/lib/email-sanitization";
 import { getRenderableHtmlBody } from "@/lib/email-body-selection";
 import { mailLanguage } from "@/lib/mail-language";
-import { applyMailTextSize } from "@/lib/mail-reading";
+import { applyMailTextSize, mailFitOptions } from "@/lib/mail-reading";
 import { useMailReading } from "@/hooks/use-mail-reading";
 import { collectReferencedCids, isEmbeddedInBody, normalizeCid, rewriteCidReferences } from "@/lib/attachment-visibility";
 import { collapsePlainTextQuotes, setupQuoteCollapse } from "@/lib/quote-collapse";
 import { DARK_PENDING_CLASS, applyEmailDarkMode, emailColorScheme, emailDarkModeCss, emailHasNativeDarkMode as htmlHasNativeDarkMode, resolveColorSchemeMedia } from "@/lib/email-dark-mode";
-import { fitEmailBodyWidth } from "@/lib/email-fit-width";
+import { fitEmailBodyWidth, type FitOptions } from "@/lib/email-fit-width";
 import { hasFullBleedCanvas } from "@/lib/email-full-bleed";
 import { stripBidiControls } from "@/lib/bidi";
 import { withBasePath } from "@/lib/browser-navigation";
@@ -3141,8 +3141,8 @@ export function EmailViewer({
   // legible at 1:1 and scrolls. Held in a ref because the measurement runs from
   // observers wired up once per document - a plain closure would keep fitting
   // (or not) across a rotation or a pane resize that crossed the breakpoint.
-  const fitBodyToWidthRef = useRef(isMobile);
-  fitBodyToWidthRef.current = isMobile;
+  // Settings > Accessibility > "Fit wide mail" does it on any screen.
+  const fitBodyToWidthRef = useRef<FitOptions>({ enabled: isMobile });
 
   // Detect if the email HTML has native dark mode support
   const emailHasNativeDarkMode = useMemo(() => {
@@ -3157,6 +3157,7 @@ export function EmailViewer({
   const reading = useMailReading();
   const readingRef = useRef(reading);
   readingRef.current = reading;
+  fitBodyToWidthRef.current = mailFitOptions(isMobile, reading.fitWidth);
   const [emailViewDarkOverride, setEmailViewDarkOverride] = useState<boolean | null>(null);
   const isDark = emailViewDarkOverride !== null
     ? emailViewDarkOverride
@@ -3442,7 +3443,7 @@ export function EmailViewer({
           // Shrink desktop-width mail to fit a phone screen first: it changes
           // the layout height, and the transform doesn't shrink the measured
           // (layout) height, so the iframe box has to be scaled by hand.
-          const scale = fitEmailBodyWidth(doc, { enabled: fitBodyToWidthRef.current });
+          const scale = fitEmailBodyWidth(doc, fitBodyToWidthRef.current);
           const height = Math.ceil(
             Math.max(doc.documentElement.scrollHeight, doc.body.scrollHeight) * scale
           );
diff --git a/components/email/thread-conversation-view.tsx b/components/email/thread-conversation-view.tsx
index 6d1a98a15..3b9514ea0 100644
--- a/components/email/thread-conversation-view.tsx
+++ b/components/email/thread-conversation-view.tsx
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ import { collectReferencedCids, isEmbeddedInBody, normalizeCid, rewriteCidRefere
 import { collapsePlainTextQuotes, setupQuoteCollapse } from "@/lib/quote-collapse";
 import { fitEmailBodyWidth } from "@/lib/email-fit-width";
 import { mailLanguage } from "@/lib/mail-language";
-import { applyMailTextSize } from "@/lib/mail-reading";
+import { applyMailTextSize, mailFitOptions } from "@/lib/mail-reading";
 import { useMailReading } from "@/hooks/use-mail-reading";
 import { DARK_PENDING_CLASS, applyEmailDarkMode, emailDarkModeCss } from "@/lib/email-dark-mode";
 import { useThemeStore } from "@/stores/theme-store";
@@ -841,7 +841,8 @@ export function ConversationEmailBody({
       const resize = () => {
         // Fit desktop-width mail to the screen before measuring: the transform
         // leaves the layout height untouched, so scale the box by hand.
-        const scale = fitEmailBodyWidth(doc);
+        // Phones always; any screen with "Fit wide mail" on.
+        const scale = fitEmailBodyWidth(doc, reading.fitWidth ? mailFitOptions(true, true) : {});
         const height = Math.max(doc.documentElement.scrollHeight, doc.body.scrollHeight);
         iframe.style.height = Math.ceil(height * scale) + 'px';
       };
@@ -881,7 +882,7 @@ export function ConversationEmailBody({
     } catch {
       // contentDocument may be inaccessible under stricter sandboxes; ignore.
     }
-  }, [t, isDark, allowExternal, email.id, selectionMenu.openRef, reading.textFactor, reading.minFontSize, reading.overrideStyles]);
+  }, [t, isDark, allowExternal, email.id, selectionMenu.openRef, reading.textFactor, reading.minFontSize, reading.overrideStyles, reading.fitWidth]);
 
   return (
     <div className={className}>
diff --git a/hooks/use-mail-reading.ts b/hooks/use-mail-reading.ts
index 39cdd0921..642d1063f 100644
--- a/hooks/use-mail-reading.ts
+++ b/hooks/use-mail-reading.ts
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ export interface MailReading {
   overrideStyles: boolean;
   /** Reading width "comfortable": lines of about 80 characters. */
   comfortableWidth: boolean;
+  /** Scale mail wider than the pane down to fit, on any screen. */
+  fitWidth: boolean;
   /** Font size for a plain-text body of `basePx` at 100 %. */
   plainFontSize: (basePx: number) => string;
   /** CSS appended to the mail document for the settings above; may be empty. */
@@ -73,6 +75,7 @@ export function useMailReading(): MailReading {
     paragraphSpacing: state.paragraphSpacing,
     underlineLinks: state.underlineLinks,
     readingWidth: state.readingWidth,
+    mailFitWidth: state.mailFitWidth,
   })));
   // The theme's colours are read from the page, so a theme change re-reads them.
   const theme = useThemeStore((state) => `${state.resolvedTheme}/${state.activeThemeId ?? ''}`);
@@ -105,13 +108,14 @@ export function useMailReading(): MailReading {
       textFactor,
       minFontSize,
       comfortableWidth,
+      fitWidth: s.mailFitWidth,
       forcedColors,
       reduceMotion,
       overrideStyles,
       plainFontSize: (basePx: number) => plainBodyFontSize(basePx, s.mailTextScale, s.fontSize, minFontSize),
       frameCss: mailFrameCss({ reduceMotion, underlineLinks: s.underlineLinks, comfortableWidth, override, fontFaceCss: fontFaces.css }),
       fontSources: fontFaces.sources,
-      frameKey: `${textFactor}/${minFontSize}${overrideStyles ? '/o' : ''}`,
+      frameKey: `${textFactor}/${minFontSize}${overrideStyles ? '/o' : ''}${s.mailFitWidth ? '/f' : ''}`,
     };
     // `theme` only marks that the page's colours changed.
     // eslint-disable-next-line react-hooks/exhaustive-deps
diff --git a/lib/__tests__/mail-reading.test.ts b/lib/__tests__/mail-reading.test.ts
index 3e41076fa..3954363ec 100644
--- a/lib/__tests__/mail-reading.test.ts
+++ b/lib/__tests__/mail-reading.test.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
-import { applyMailTextSize, mailFrameCss, mailOverrideActive, mailOverrideCss, mailTextFactor, plainBodyFontSize, resolveSystemToggle, scaledTextSize } from '@/lib/mail-reading';
+import { computeFitScale } from '@/lib/email-fit-width';
+import { applyMailTextSize, mailFitOptions, mailFrameCss, mailOverrideActive, mailOverrideCss, mailTextFactor, plainBodyFontSize, resolveSystemToggle, scaledTextSize } from '@/lib/mail-reading';
 
 describe('mailTextFactor', () => {
   it('follows the app text size when the mail size is 0', () => {
@@ -153,3 +154,16 @@ describe('applyMailTextSize with the override stylesheet', () => {
     expect(p.style.getPropertyValue('text-align')).toBe('start');
   });
 });
+
+describe('mailFitOptions', () => {
+  it('fits only on phones by default', () => {
+    expect(computeFitScale(1200, 800, mailFitOptions(false, false))).toBe(1);
+    expect(mailFitOptions(false, false).enabled).toBe(false);
+    expect(mailFitOptions(true, false).enabled).toBe(true);
+  });
+  it('fits a wide mail into a desktop pane with "Fit wide mail" on', () => {
+    const options = mailFitOptions(false, true);
+    expect(options.enabled).toBe(true);
+    expect(computeFitScale(1200, 800, options)).toBeCloseTo(2 / 3);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/lib/mail-reading.ts b/lib/mail-reading.ts
index 9a0a413e1..b5b103886 100644
--- a/lib/mail-reading.ts
+++ b/lib/mail-reading.ts
@@ -280,3 +280,11 @@ export function collectFontFaces(doc: Document, family: string): { css: string;
   }
   return { css: css.join('\n'), sources: [...sources] };
 }
+
+/**
+ * Scale-to-fit options for a message body: on a phone always (the reader's
+ * old behaviour), on any screen with "Fit wide mail" on.
+ */
+export function mailFitOptions(isMobile: boolean, fitWidth: boolean): { enabled: boolean; viewportMax?: number } {
+  return fitWidth ? { enabled: true, viewportMax: Infinity } : { enabled: isMobile };
+}