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authorPaul McQuade <paulmcquad@gmail.com>2014-05-15 13:54:25 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-05-25 12:39:00 -0700
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Documentation: update thunderbird email client 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> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -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 "0"
-- 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)"
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