Re: [wwwdocs] Add tips for e-mail client configuration contribute.html

[Bernardo Innocenti <bernie at develer dot com>]

Per Bothner wrote:
> Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> 
> 
>>+<dt>Mozilla Mail</dt>
>>+<dd>
>>+<p>In &quot;<code>Edit / Mail &amp; Newsgroups Account Settings / YOUR-ACCOUNT /
>>+Composition &amp; Addressing</code>&quot;, uncheck &quot;<code>Compose messages
>>+in HTML format</code>&quot;.</p>
>>+
>>+<p>In &quot;<code>Edit / Preferences / Mail &amp; Newsgroups /
>>+Composition</code>&quot;, write &quot;<code>0</code>&quot; in the
>>+&quot;<code>Wrap text messages at N characters</code>&quot; edit box.</p>
>>+
>>+<p>Disable RFC 2646 flowed-format by setting the following options in
>>+&quot;<code>about:config</code>&quot; or in the &quot;<code>prefs.js</code>&quot;
>>+configuration file:</p>
>>+<blockquote><pre>
>>+  mailnews.display.disable_format_flowed_support = true
>>+  mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed = false
>>+</pre></blockquote>
>>+
>>+</dd>
> 
> 
> Note this is not necessary if you attach the patch.
> I always attach my patches, and it comes out fine,
> without any special tweaking.  I'm running Mozilla 1.7
> on Mac OSX.  Usually the patches are generated on GNU/Linux,
> and copied over; sometimes they're generated natively.
> Either way I seem to get the "right thing" without any
> special configuration.  For example:
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-06/msg01910.html
> contains an attachment - though the archive doesn't
> indicate that.

mailman is smarter than many mail clients then.

Reading attached patches is sometimes harder.  Some
clients don't even display them inline.

I still had your patch in my gcc-patches maildir folder,
so I experimented a little.

With Mozilla 1.7, everything is fine.

With KMail, your patch is shown inline, but inside a funny box.
The patch text doesn't get quoted if I reply to your mail.
This would require some manual fiddling when someone wants
to review it.

In the LKML, attaching patches is strongly discouraged
by Linus and other kernel hackers.  Linus was known to use
/bin/mail to read his mail and hitting 'd' automatically
when he sees base64 data on his terminal ;-)

I know we're not on the LKML, but it would be nice if patches
could be freely cross-posted or forwarded between different
mailing lists.

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