2010-12-10 12:59:54

by Lasse Collin

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Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: Warn about word wrap bug in KMail

From: Lasse Collin <[email protected]>

Signed-off-by: Lasse Collin <[email protected]>
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--- linux-2.6.37-rc4.orig/Documentation/email-clients.txt 2010-10-20 23:30:22.000000000 +0300
+++ linux-2.6.37-rc4/Documentation/email-clients.txt 2010-12-10 14:16:41.000000000 +0200
@@ -104,6 +104,13 @@ Then from the "Message" menu item, selec
As an added bonus you can customise the message creation toolbar menu
and put the "insert file" icon there.

+Make the the composer window wide enough so that no lines wrap. As of
+KMail 1.13.5 (KDE 4.5.4), KMail will apply word wrapping when sending
+the email if the lines wrap in the composer window. Having word wrapping
+disabled in the Options menu isn't enough. Thus, if your patch has very
+long lines, you must make the composer window very wide before sending
+the email. See: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174034
+
You can safely GPG sign attachments, but inlined text is preferred for
patches so do not GPG sign them. Signing patches that have been inserted
as inlined text will make them tricky to extract from their 7-bit encoding.