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From: Ben Bucksch <ben.bucksch.news@beonex.com>
Subject: Re: Thunderbird and patches (was Re: [PATCH v2] Enable setting attach
   as the default in .gitconfig   for git-format-patch.)
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:20:43 +0100
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On 09.02.2009 20:14, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> On 09.02.2009 19:54, Brandon Casey wrote:
>>> I will follow up with an example patch which has the control
>>> characters in it.
>>>        

> Especially the "Save" command will save the byte-identical body of the
> mail.
>    

I think Thunderbird will also save a byte-identical copy of the mail, if 
you use File | Save... and use ".eml" (for email = RFC822) file extension.

The dialog is sensitive to the file extension and determines the format 
based on that, but is unfortunately not communicative about it.

If you save as HTML (.html) or plaintext (.txt), it runs it through the 
MIME converters and reformats it for display / human reading.