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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>,
	marc.smith@esmail.mcc.edu,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: VM/VFS bug with large amount of memory and file systems?
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:16:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070916181619.2787f4a6@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EF4D78B7-DCE2-49E7-B31E-AB9A9B7F7609@mac.com>

On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 03:22:11 -0400 Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>
wrote:

> On Sep 15, 2007, at 07:19:01, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 11:50 +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> >> I haven't word wrapped it at all.  The lines appear as whole lines  
> >> in Apple Mail (my email client).  It must be your email client  
> >> that is wrapping them...
> >
> > Oddly, this line is still long in Andrew's reply but wrapped in  
> > yours.  Must be some odd mailer interaction.
> 
> Actually Apple Mail.app sends format=flowed wrapped to 73  
> characters.  So a wrapped line has a single space character right  
> before each 'wrapping' newline.  If your mail client supports  
> format=flowed viewing and sends without format=flowed (like AKPM's  
> mailer appears to), then it will properly unwrap the lines and resend  
> without the wrapping.  Mailers which *DONT* support format=flowed  
> will see the wrapped version.  Normally this is what you want but  
> it's a PITA for patches and logfiles.
> 
> I believe with Mail.app if you attach a .txt file it will be  
> unmangled and sent as "Content-Type: text/plain" and "Content- 
> Disposition: inline", so most email-clients will display it as part  
> of the message.

Ah, thanks for the hint. I've switched mailer to claws-mail-3.0.0 and
hacked the thing a bit so its useful. One of the things I added was a
menu entry for respect_flowed_format. So I can now flip between flowed
and non-flowed with a key.

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-16 16:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-15  7:27 VM/VFS bug with large amount of memory and file systems? Anton Altaparmakov
2007-09-15 10:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-15 10:50   ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-09-15 11:19     ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-16  7:22       ` Kyle Moffett
2007-09-16 16:16         ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2007-09-15 10:52   ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-17 14:04     ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-09-17 14:09       ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-09-16 22:28         ` Nick Piggin
2007-09-17 17:04           ` Rik van Riel
2007-09-17 17:12             ` Nick Piggin
2007-09-18 14:41               ` Rik van Riel
2007-09-17 14:32       ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-17 17:11         ` Rik van Riel
2007-09-17 20:15           ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-17 20:46             ` Rik van Riel
2007-09-17 21:11               ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-19 22:12                 ` Rik van Riel
2007-09-19 22:45                   ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-19 22:50                     ` Rik van Riel
2007-09-19 23:29                     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19 23:37                       ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-03 10:51 ` Pavel Machek

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