On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 05:29 -0700, Darrin Chandler wrote: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 09:57:48AM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > ahhh. since you are posting from gmail, it might be better to put the > > diff on a web server and give the URL. (or paste in a uuencode of the diff). > > gmail is not good at sending diffs without mangling them horribly. > > If the diff is named something like foo.txt and *attached* it should > work, should it not? Some (most?) MUAs will even show text/plain > attachments inline, which makes things easier. I don't have a gmail > account so I can't try it out, but that seems like the simplest way > around the problem. >
Yet another workaround that ought to be fine: I use the IMAP settings from gmail to download to evolution, which is set up for plain text. All the convenience of gmail's labels system, with the speedier interface of a download client. James
