Mozilla Mail, "Format=Flowed" and Patch Submissions

[Ranjit Mathew <rmathew at hotmail dot com>]

Hi,

    I'm sorry that this is off-topic for this list, but
this is a follow up to my earlier message to this list:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java-patches/2003-q1/msg00357.html

I had to stop using Mozilla Mail for submitting
patches and switch back to Netscape Messenger 4.8
because Mozilla Mail used to insert an extra space
into lines in a message starting with a space,
completely ruining a patch submission!

It turns out that this is a "feature" and an implementation
of RFC 2646 (in particular, "Format=Flowed") - see:

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=123686&action=view
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168420

Well, if like me you are not terribly excited by this
"feature" implementation in Mozilla Mail/News, fortunately
there is a way to completely disable it - enter the
following in your Mozilla "prefs.js":

user_pref("mailnews.display.disable_format_flowed_support", true);
user_pref("mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed", false);

(or in "about:config")

Ranjit.

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