Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:47:42 -0500 | From | jim owens <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Documentation/email-clients.txt: clarify Thunderbird section |
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Alan Jenkins wrote: > /google > > The RFC for format=flowed says that it should escape lines which start > with a space (by "space stuffing" - prepending an additional space). So > in theory it should completely break patches. And indeed it does > <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java-patches/2003-q2/msg00315.html> > > Using HTML preformat in current versions of Thunderbird appears to send > with a format=flowed content-type, and then violates the RFC by not > performing any space-stuffing. > > So if I look at format=flowed patch in my Sent email folder, I see that > the message viewer correctly strips the first leading space in each > line. I.e. it breaks if you use copy+paste to get the patch out of > Thunderbird (or any other format=flowed aware client). File->Save As > preserves the spaces though, allowing the patch to be applied. > > Regards > Alan "Don't you feel better knowing that"
Thanks, yes I do...
Since the text wrap=0 also shut off "space stuffing" on send in my version (as seen by the raw message on my smtp gateway), I'm thinking they have html/text consistent sending bugs.
So I'll use the "format=flowed,false" in my prefs so they don't blow me away with a future fix :)
jim
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