From: Brian P. <br...@vm...> - 2009-02-27 02:06:42
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David Miller wrote: > From: Brian Paul <br...@vm...> > Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:36:38 -0700 > >> I use Thunderbird for email. Your patch appeared inline; not as an >> attachment. When I saved the message to a file, long lines were >> broken with a '=' symbol and that fouled up git-am. I've >> occasionally seen this before. Don't know the cause. > >>From linux/Documentation/email-clients.txt: > > ---------------------------------------- > By default, thunderbird likes to mangle text, but there are ways to > coerce it into being nice. > > - Under account settings, composition and addressing, uncheck "Compose > messages in HTML format". > > - Edit your Thunderbird config settings to tell it not to wrap lines: > user_pref("mailnews.wraplength", 0); > > - Edit your Thunderbird config settings so that it won't use format=flowed: > user_pref("mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed", false); > > - You need to get Thunderbird into preformat mode: > . If you compose HTML messages by default, it's not too hard. Just select > "Preformat" from the drop-down box just under the subject line. > . If you compose in text by default, you have to tell it to compose a new > message in HTML (just as a one-off), and then force it from there back to > text, else it will wrap lines. To do this, use shift-click on the Write > icon to compose to get HTML compose mode, then select "Preformat" from > the drop-down box just under the subject line. > > - Allows use of an external editor: > The easiest thing to do with Thunderbird and patches is to use an > "external editor" extension and then just use your favorite $EDITOR > for reading/merging patches into the body text. To do this, download > and install the extension, then add a button for it using > View->Toolbars->Customize... and finally just click on it when in the > Compose dialog. This didn't help with Thunderbird's "Save As File" garbling. But with your latest patch/email it saved the message body as a block of mime/whatever-encoded data, rather than mis-wrapped ascii like before. Thanks for the tips but I don't expect you to solve my Thunderbird problems. :) -Brian |