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From: paulmcquad <paulmcquad@gmail.com>
To: Paul McQuade <paulmcquad@gmail.com>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Doc: email-clients.txt:added thunderbird settings
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 18:59:00 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53332374.3000703@gmail.com> (raw)

>From 9c385609591c5ed87989a127c95da95aa8845162 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul McQuade <paulmcquad@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 20:16:47 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Doc: email-clients.txt:added thunderbird settings

Added setting to email-clients that is easier to read
and is easier to setup thunderbird. Removed config settings
and added GUI settings.

Signed-off-by: Paul McQuade <paulmcquad@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/email-clients.txt | 15 +++++----------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/email-clients.txt b/Documentation/email-clients.txt
index e9f5dac..1e7c171 100644
--- a/Documentation/email-clients.txt
+++ b/Documentation/email-clients.txt
@@ -201,20 +201,15 @@ To beat some sense out of the internal editor, do this:
 
 - 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".
+  thunderbird's registry editor.
 
-- Disable HTML Format: Set "mail.identity.id1.compose_html" to "false".
+- Set "mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed" to "false"
 
-- Enable "preformat" mode: Set "editor.quotesPreformatted" to "true".
+- Set "mailnews.wraplength" from "72" to "90"
 
-- Enable UTF8: Set "prefs.converted-to-utf8" to "true".
+- "View" > "Message Body As" > "Plain Text"
 
-- Install the "toggle wordwrap" extension.  Download the file from:
-    https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/addon/2351/
-  Then go to "tools->add ons", select "install" at the bottom of the screen,
-  and browse to where you saved the .xul file.  This adds an "Enable
-  Wordwrap" entry under the Options menu of the message composer.
+- "View" > "Character Encoding" > "Unicode (UTF-8)"
 
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 TkRat (GUI)
-- 
1.8.3.2


             reply	other threads:[~2014-03-26 18:59 UTC|newest]

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2014-03-26 18:59 paulmcquad [this message]
2014-03-26 20:07 ` [PATCH] Doc: email-clients.txt:added thunderbird settings Randy Dunlap
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2014-03-26 20:53     ` paulmcquad

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