Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Dec 2005 16:45:09 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: recommended mail clients [was] [PATCH] ati-agp suspend/resume support (try 2) |
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On Út 27-12-05 09:20:15, Jason Munro wrote: > On 4:26:17 pm 26 Dec 2005 Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> wrote: > > >> > > >> I use pine and evolution. Pine is text based and great when I > > >> ssh into my machine to work. Evolution is slow, but plays well > > >> with pine and it handles things needed for LKML very well. (the > > >> drop down menu "Normal" may be changed to "Preformat", which > > >> allows of inserting text files "as-is"). > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > This satisfies Linus's demand that all patches be part of the email > > > body and not an attachment. > > > > > > Do not always blame the MUA, because actually, the MTAs may do > > anything with the mail text. That's (among other reasons) why things > > like MIME attachments were invented, because they (their respective > > uuencoded or base64encoded "text") can be wrapped but does not change > > the decoded form. - Something like that is in the pine doc. > > So which is preferable for someone handling inline patches. A properly > encoded message text that when decoded with a compliant client accurately > represents the original text (no whitespace mangling etc), or a message > text that is accurate in it's raw state but may be altered during transit?
inlined text. I've never seen MTA mangling patch. Maybe 15 years ago... Pavel -- Thanks, Sharp! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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