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diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 958182f6aa1f..302d148c2e18 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -209,6 +209,19 @@ Exception: If your mailer is mangling patches then someone may ask you to re-send them using MIME. +WARNING: Some mailers like Mozilla send your messages with +---- message header ---- +Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed +---- message header ---- +The problem is that "format=flowed" makes some of the mailers +on receiving side to replace TABs with spaces and do similar +changes. Thus the patches from you can look corrupted. + +To fix this just make your mozilla defaults/pref/mailnews.js file to look like: +pref("mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed", false); // RFC 2646======= +pref("mailnews.display.disable_format_flowed_support", true); + + 7) E-mail size. |