Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Sat, 06 Aug 2011 22:45:36 +0100 | From | Paul Mcquade <> | Subject | [PATCH] Email-clients: Add better Thunderbird information. |
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Email-clients: Add better Thunderbird information.
Add Thunderbird Registry instructions to: Enable UTF8 & Preformat mode Disable HTML mode
Fwd: From 'linux-doc' mailing list Signed-off-by: Paul McQuade <paulmcquad@gmail.com> ---
Documentation/email-clients.txt | 12 +++++------- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/email-clients.txt b/Documentation/email-clients.txt index a0b58e2..860c29a 100644 --- a/Documentation/email-clients.txt +++ b/Documentation/email-clients.txt @@ -199,18 +199,16 @@ to coerce it into behaving. To beat some sense out of the internal editor, do this: -- Under account settings, composition and addressing, uncheck "Compose - messages in HTML format". - - Edit your Thunderbird config settings so that it won't use format=flowed. Go to "edit->preferences->advanced->config editor" to bring up the thunderbird's registry editor, and set "mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed" to "false". -- Enable "preformat" mode: Shft-click on the Write icon to bring up the HTML - composer, select "Preformat" from the drop-down box just under the subject - line, then close the message without saving. (This setting also applies to - the text composer, but the only control for it is in the HTML composer.) +- Disable HTML Format: Set "mail.identity.id1.compose_html" to "false". + +- Enable "preformat" mode: Set "editor.quotesPreformatted" to "true". + +- Enable UTF8: Set "prefs.converted-to-utf8" to "true". - Install the "toggle wordwrap" extension. Download the file from: https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/addon/2351/ -- 1.7.4.1
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