* [PATCH] add a note about "format=flowed" when sending patches
@ 2006-09-08 17:17 Kirill Korotaev
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From: Kirill Korotaev @ 2006-09-08 17:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Linus Torvalds, Linux Kernel Mailing List, devel
add a note about "format=flowed" when sending patches
and explain how to fix mozilla. Thunderbird has the similar
options.
Signed-Off-By: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
--- ./Documentation/SubmittingPatches.xdoc 2006-09-01 13:12:05.000000000 +0400
+++ ./Documentation/SubmittingPatches 2006-09-08 21:11:44.000000000 +0400
@@ -209,6 +209,19 @@ Exception: If your mailer is mangling p
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);
+
+
7) E-mail size.
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