From: Eddie Kovsky <ewk@edkovsky.org>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: Clarify use of Gmail for emailing patches
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 23:21:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151106062141.GA16377@athena> (raw)
Clarify that Gmail can be used to send patches, provided you use Gmail
as a server and avoid the Web UI.
Signed-off-by: Eddie Kovsky <ewk@edkovsky.org>
---
Documentation/email-clients.txt | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/email-clients.txt b/Documentation/email-clients.txt
index aba85b39a400..ca38031c4762 100644
--- a/Documentation/email-clients.txt
+++ b/Documentation/email-clients.txt
@@ -250,7 +250,8 @@ Works. Use "Insert file..." or external editor.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Gmail (Web GUI)
-Does not work for sending patches.
+Gmail works fine for sending patches provided you do NOT use the web interface
+and just use Gmail as an IMAP server with a text based email client.
Gmail web client converts tabs to spaces automatically.
--
2.6.2
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2015-11-06 6:21 Eddie Kovsky [this message]
2015-11-11 17:29 ` [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: Clarify use of Gmail for emailing patches Jonathan Corbet
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