Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Fri, 08 Sep 2006 21:17:41 +0400 | From | Kirill Korotaev <> | Subject | [PATCH] add a note about "format=flowed" when sending patches |
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add a note about "format=flowed" when sending patches and explain how to fix mozilla. Thunderbird has the similar options.
Signed-Off-By: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
--- ./Documentation/SubmittingPatches.xdoc 2006-09-01 13:12:05.000000000 +0400 +++ ./Documentation/SubmittingPatches 2006-09-08 21:11:44.000000000 +0400 @@ -209,6 +209,19 @@ Exception: If your mailer is mangling p you to re-send them using MIME. +WARNING: Some mailers like Mozilla send your messages with +---- message header ---- +Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed +---- message header ---- +The problem is that "format=flowed" makes some of the mailers +on receiving side to replace TABs with spaces and do similar +changes. Thus the patches from you can look corrupted. + +To fix this just make your mozilla defaults/pref/mailnews.js file to look like: +pref("mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed", false); // RFC 2646======= +pref("mailnews.display.disable_format_flowed_support", true); + + 7) E-mail size. - 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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