From 683e91cbd0582cb8e63daaf0429e0a62be9cc421 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kirill Korotaev Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 02:01:47 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] SubmittingPatches: add a note about "format=flowed" when sending patches Add a note about "format=flowed" when sending patches and explain how to fix mozilla. Thunderbird has the similar options. Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') 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. -- cgit v1.2.3