[PATCH] Email-clients: Add better Thunderbird information.

[PATCH] Email-clients: Add better Thunderbird information.

[Paul Mcquade]

Email-clients: Add better Thunderbird information.

Add Thunderbird Registry instructions to:
Enable UTF8 & Preformat mode
Disable HTML mode

Fwd: From 'linux-doc' mailing list
Signed-off-by: Paul McQuade <paulmcquad@gmail.com>
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 Documentation/email-clients.txt |   12 +++++-------
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/email-clients.txt b/Documentation/email-clients.txt
index a0b58e2..860c29a 100644
--- a/Documentation/email-clients.txt
+++ b/Documentation/email-clients.txt
@@ -199,18 +199,16 @@ to coerce it into behaving.
 
 To beat some sense out of the internal editor, do this:
 
-- Under account settings, composition and addressing, uncheck "Compose
-  messages in HTML format".
-
 - Edit your Thunderbird config settings so that it won't use format=flowed.
   Go to "edit->preferences->advanced->config editor" to bring up the
   thunderbird's registry editor, and set "mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed" to
   "false".
 
-- Enable "preformat" mode: Shft-click on the Write icon to bring up the HTML
-  composer, select "Preformat" from the drop-down box just under the subject
-  line, then close the message without saving.  (This setting also applies to
-  the text composer, but the only control for it is in the HTML composer.)
+- Disable HTML Format: Set "mail.identity.id1.compose_html" to "false".
+
+- Enable "preformat" mode: Set "editor.quotesPreformatted" to "true".
+
+- Enable UTF8: Set "prefs.converted-to-utf8" to "true".
 
 - Install the "toggle wordwrap" extension.  Download the file from:
     https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/addon/2351/
-- 1.7.4.1

Re: [PATCH] Email-clients: Add better Thunderbird information.

[Randy Dunlap]

On Sat, 06 Aug 2011 00:11:40 +0100 Paul Mcquade wrote:

> ---
>  Documentation/email-clients.txt |   12 +++++-------
>  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/email-clients.txt b/Documentation/email-clients.txt
> index a0b58e2..860c29a 100644
> --- a/Documentation/email-clients.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/email-clients.txt
> @@ -199,18 +199,16 @@ to coerce it into behaving.
>  
>  To beat some sense out of the internal editor, do this:
>  
> -- Under account settings, composition and addressing, uncheck "Compose
> -  messages in HTML format".
> -
>  - Edit your Thunderbird config settings so that it won't use format=flowed.
>    Go to "edit->preferences->advanced->config editor" to bring up the
>    thunderbird's registry editor, and set "mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed" to
>    "false".
>  
> -- Enable "preformat" mode: Shft-click on the Write icon to bring up the HTML
> -  composer, select "Preformat" from the drop-down box just under the subject
> -  line, then close the message without saving.  (This setting also applies to
> -  the text composer, but the only control for it is in the HTML composer.)
> +- Disable HTML Format: Set "mail.identity.id1.compose_html" to "false".
> +
> +- Enable "preformat" mode: Set "editor.quotesPreformatted" to "true".
> +
> +- Enable UTF8: Set "prefs.converted-to-utf8" to "true".
>  
>  - Install the "toggle wordwrap" extension.  Download the file from:
>      https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/addon/2351/
> -- 1.7.4.1


Applied, thanks.

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~Randy
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