Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750789AbWIHRNw (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Sep 2006 13:13:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750804AbWIHRNw (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Sep 2006 13:13:52 -0400 Received: from mailhub.sw.ru ([195.214.233.200]:48222 "EHLO relay.sw.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750789AbWIHRNv (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Sep 2006 13:13:51 -0400 Message-ID: <4501A5B5.8050801@openvz.org> Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 21:17:41 +0400 From: Kirill Korotaev User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060417 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , devel@openvz.org Subject: [PATCH] add a note about "format=flowed" when sending patches Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1261 Lines: 35 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 --- ./Documentation/SubmittingPatches.xdoc 2006-09-01 13:12:05.000000000 +0400 +++ ./Documentation/SubmittingPatches 2006-09-08 21:11:44.000000000 +0400 @@ -209,6 +209,19 @@ Exception: If your mailer is mangling p 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/