David Miller wrote:
> From: Brian Paul <bri...@vmware.com>
> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:36:38 -0700
>
>> I use Thunderbird for email. Your patch appeared inline; not as an
>> attachment. When I saved the message to a file, long lines were
>> broken with a '=' symbol and that fouled up git-am. I've
>> occasionally seen this before. Don't know the cause.
>
>>From linux/Documentation/email-clients.txt:
>
> ----------------------------------------
> By default, thunderbird likes to mangle text, but there are ways to
> coerce it into being nice.
>
> - Under account settings, composition and addressing, uncheck "Compose
> messages in HTML format".
>
> - Edit your Thunderbird config settings to tell it not to wrap lines:
> user_pref("mailnews.wraplength", 0);
>
> - Edit your Thunderbird config settings so that it won't use format=flowed:
> user_pref("mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed", false);
>
> - You need to get Thunderbird into preformat mode:
> . If you compose HTML messages by default, it's not too hard. Just select
> "Preformat" from the drop-down box just under the subject line.
> . If you compose in text by default, you have to tell it to compose a new
> message in HTML (just as a one-off), and then force it from there back to
> text, else it will wrap lines. To do this, use shift-click on the Write
> icon to compose to get HTML compose mode, then select "Preformat" from
> the drop-down box just under the subject line.
>
> - Allows use of an external editor:
> The easiest thing to do with Thunderbird and patches is to use an
> "external editor" extension and then just use your favorite $EDITOR
> for reading/merging patches into the body text. To do this, download
> and install the extension, then add a button for it using
> View->Toolbars->Customize... and finally just click on it when in the
> Compose dialog.
This didn't help with Thunderbird's "Save As File" garbling. But with your
latest patch/email it saved the message body as a block of
mime/whatever-encoded data, rather than mis-wrapped ascii like before.
Thanks for the tips but I don't expect you to solve my Thunderbird problems. :)
-Brian
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