Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 26 Dec 2005 14:18:18 -0500 | | From | Jeff Garzik <> | | Subject | Re: recommended mail clients |
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Jaco Kroon wrote: > Lee Revell wrote: > >>On Mon, 2005-12-26 at 12:09 -0600, Jason Munro wrote: >> >> >>>On 11:54:00 am 26 Dec 2005 Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote: >>> >>><snip> >>> >>>>>Dare I say it, KMail has also been doing the Right Thing for a >>>>>long time. It will only line wrap things that you insert by >>>>>typing; pastes are left untouched. >>>> >>>>It seems that of all the popular mail clients only Thunderbird has >>>>this problem. AFAICT it's impossible to make it DTRT with inline >>>>patches and even if it is the fact that most users get it wrong >>>>points to a serious usability/UI issue. >>>> >>>>Would a patch to add "Don't use Thunderbird/Mozilla Mail" to >>>>SubmittingPatches be accepted? Then we can point the Mozilla >>>>developers at it (they have shown zero interest in fixing the problem >>>>so far) and hopefully this will light a fire under someone. > > > I would second that patch.
I would NAK such a patch.
Andrew Morton described a way to do it, some method using x cut buffers, IIRC.
The best thing to do is use a custom script, though. Other mailers can be annoying as well, with regards to the References header, for example. And pine is awful, encoding plain text as base64.
Jeff
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