Posting Patches with Evolution (WAS Re: Mozilla Thunderbird posting instructions wanted)

[Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>]

On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 10:12 +1300, Sam Vilain wrote:
> Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > This  POS is pretty popular among kernel janitors, so, can someone who
> > is successfully using it, please, post crystally clear step-by-step
> > instructions on how to send a foo.patch:
> > 	inline
> > 	with tabs preserved
> > 	with long lines preserved
> > 
> > Sending plain text attachments is OK with me, but, heh, people do post
> > patches inline and screw themselves.
> > 
> > I'll put instructions somewhere on -kj website and point every
> > unsuspecting new guy to them.
> 
> Evolution has an option for setting the Content-Disposition: inline 
> header on individual attachments; I haven't seen the same option in 
> thunderbird.
> 
> Sam.

	Even better, you can inline plain text in Evolution if you switch the
text style to "Preformat" just before going to the "Insert" menu,
selecting "Text file...", and selecting a file to insert. This works
even with HTML-formatted output turned off in your preferences.

Cheers,
	-Matt Helsley