Re: [PATCH] Doc: email-clients.txt:added thunderbird settings

[Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>]

On 03/26/2014 11:59 AM, paulmcquad wrote:
> From 9c385609591c5ed87989a127c95da95aa8845162 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Paul McQuade <paulmcquad@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 20:16:47 +0000
> Subject: [PATCH] Doc: email-clients.txt:added thunderbird settings
> 
> Added setting to email-clients that is easier to read
> and is easier to setup thunderbird. Removed config settings
> and added GUI settings.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul McQuade <paulmcquad@gmail.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/email-clients.txt | 15 +++++----------
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/email-clients.txt b/Documentation/email-clients.txt
> index e9f5dac..1e7c171 100644
> --- a/Documentation/email-clients.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/email-clients.txt
> @@ -201,20 +201,15 @@ To beat some sense out of the internal editor, do this:
>  
>  - 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".
> +  thunderbird's registry editor.
>  
> -- Disable HTML Format: Set "mail.identity.id1.compose_html" to "false".

Did that option go away?  We don't want to compose html email.

> +- Set "mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed" to "false"
>  
> -- Enable "preformat" mode: Set "editor.quotesPreformatted" to "true".
> +- Set "mailnews.wraplength" from "72" to "90"

Can wraplength be disabled completely?  It would be better to disable
wrapping.  Long kernel source code lines should not get broken.
(or am I addressing the wrong option?)

>  
> -- Enable UTF8: Set "prefs.converted-to-utf8" to "true".
> +- "View" > "Message Body As" > "Plain Text"
>  
> -- Install the "toggle wordwrap" extension.  Download the file from:
> -    https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/addon/2351/
> -  Then go to "tools->add ons", select "install" at the bottom of the screen,
> -  and browse to where you saved the .xul file.  This adds an "Enable
> -  Wordwrap" entry under the Options menu of the message composer.
> +- "View" > "Character Encoding" > "Unicode (UTF-8)"
>  
>  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>  TkRat (GUI)
> 


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~Randy