Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:05:47 -0600 | From | "Chris Friesen" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Documentation/email-clients.txt: clarify Thunderbird section |
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On 12/10/2009 10:25 AM, Alan Jenkins wrote:
> 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.
Hmm...I'm using Thunderbird 3 beta4, and it appears that when sending via the "preformat" mechanism it actually does perform space-stuffing. This is visible as an extra leading space when looking at the raw source of the sent (or received) email via ctrl-U.
However, if one turns off format=flowed, but leaves wrap set to 72, then the html preformat works without having to set the wrap to 0.
Thanks,
Chris
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