* [PATCH] Doc: email-clients.txt:added thunderbird settings
@ 2014-03-26 18:59 paulmcquad
2014-03-26 20:07 ` Randy Dunlap
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: paulmcquad @ 2014-03-26 18:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Paul McQuade, linux-doc, linux-kernel
>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
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* Re: [PATCH] Doc: email-clients.txt:added thunderbird settings
2014-03-26 18:59 [PATCH] Doc: email-clients.txt:added thunderbird settings paulmcquad
@ 2014-03-26 20:07 ` Randy Dunlap
[not found] ` <53333DA1.6040809@gmail.com>
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Randy Dunlap @ 2014-03-26 20:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: paulmcquad, linux-doc, linux-kernel
On 03/26/2014 11:59 AM, paulmcquad wrote:
> 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".
Did that option go away? We don't want to compose html email.
> +- Set "mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed" to "false"
>
> -- Enable "preformat" mode: Set "editor.quotesPreformatted" to "true".
> +- Set "mailnews.wraplength" from "72" to "90"
Can wraplength be disabled completely? It would be better to disable
wrapping. Long kernel source code lines should not get broken.
(or am I addressing the wrong option?)
>
> -- 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)
>
--
~Randy
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