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From: Michael Opdenacker <michael-lists@free-electrons.com>
To: rob@landley.net
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: mention email-clients.txt in SubmittingPatches
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:20:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200801181120.03168.michael-lists@free-electrons.com> (raw)

Applies to 2.6.24-rc8-git2

I was struggling to get my email-client no to mangle my patch files,
and I didn't find enough information in the SubmittingPatches file.
By looking for more information on the web, I eventually found the
email-clients.txt file, and it answered all my needs

This patch adds a reference to email-clients.txt in SubmittingPatches,
and Mozilla related information which is no longer accurate
(as opposed to the details found in email-clients.txt).

This should be helpful for people sending their first patches,
or not sending patches on a frequent basis.

Michael.

--
Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael@free-electrons.com>

diff -Naur linux-2.6.24-rc8-git2/Documentation/SubmittingPatches linux-2.6.24-rc8-git2-sp/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
--- linux-2.6.24-rc8-git2/Documentation/SubmittingPatches	2008-01-17 09:48:56.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.24-rc8-git2-sp/Documentation/SubmittingPatches	2008-01-18 10:29:46.000000000 +0100
@@ -220,20 +220,8 @@
 Exception:  If your mailer is mangling patches then someone may ask
 you to re-send them using MIME.
 
-
-WARNING: Some mailers like Mozilla send your messages with
----- message header ----
-Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
----- message header ----
-The problem is that "format=flowed" makes some of the mailers
-on receiving side to replace TABs with spaces and do similar
-changes. Thus the patches from you can look corrupted.
-
-To fix this just make your mozilla defaults/pref/mailnews.js file to look like:
-pref("mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed", false); // RFC 2646=======
-pref("mailnews.display.disable_format_flowed_support", true);
-
-
+See Documentation/email-clients.txt for hints about configuring
+your e-mail client so that it sends your patches untouched.
 
 8) E-mail size.
 

-- 
Michael Opdenacker, Free Electrons
Free Embedded Linux Training Materials
on http://free-electrons.com/training
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             reply	other threads:[~2008-01-18 10:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-18 10:20 Michael Opdenacker [this message]
2008-01-18 16:34 ` [PATCH] Documentation: mention email-clients.txt in SubmittingPatches Randy Dunlap
2008-01-28 15:52   ` Paul Jackson
2008-01-28 16:17     ` Randy Dunlap
2008-01-28 19:32       ` Paul Jackson
2008-01-28 20:58         ` Randy Dunlap
2008-01-28 21:20           ` Randy Dunlap
2008-01-28 21:49             ` Paul Jackson
2008-01-28 21:48           ` Paul Jackson
2008-01-18 20:35 ` Jeff Garzik

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