From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261205AbULEAFe (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Dec 2004 19:05:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261206AbULEAFb (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Dec 2004 19:05:31 -0500 Received: from out010pub.verizon.net ([206.46.170.133]:63972 "EHLO out010.verizon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261205AbULEAFZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Dec 2004 19:05:25 -0500 Message-ID: <41B250DA.8080308@verizon.net> Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 19:05:46 -0500 From: Jim Nelson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Randy.Dunlap" CC: Lee Revell , Michal Schmidt , Alessandro Amici , Miguel Angel Flores , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kernel development environment References: <41B1F97A.80803@sombragris.com> <200412042121.49274.alexamici@fastwebnet.it> <41B22381.10008@sombragris.com> <200412042237.48729.alexamici@fastwebnet.it> <1102196829.28776.46.camel@krustophenia.net> <41B22EDE.2060009@stud.feec.vutbr.cz> <1102200355.28776.58.camel@krustophenia.net> <41B24A46.2010802@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <41B24A46.2010802@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out010.verizon.net from [209.158.220.243] at Sat, 4 Dec 2004 18:05:24 -0600 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Randy.Dunlap wrote: > Lee Revell wrote: > >> On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 22:40 +0100, Michal Schmidt wrote: >> >>> Lee Revell wrote: >>> >>>> In case you did not get the joke, Mozilla Mail is one of the WORST mail >>>> clients for handling kernel patches. See the list archives. >>> >>> >>> Mozilla works fine if you send patches as attachments. >>> >> >> >> I still say it's broken. >> >> http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/10/22/488 > > > so don't use copy-paste. that idea is broken. > > otoh, netscape/mozilla/thunderbird mail > all work fine (except that attachments are required, > instead of being able to insert patches inline). > After inadvertently helping to discover the bug in Mozilla, I use the sendpatchset script written by Paul Jackson at: http://www.speakeasy.org/~pj99/sgi/sendpatchset That lets people's patch-collecting scripts work properly, since (apparently) most of the m choke on the MIME headers from attachments. If you need to connect directly to your ISP, Paul sent me a fix I can forward.