Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761133AbZLJQrj (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:47:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761123AbZLJQri (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:47:38 -0500 Received: from g4t0016.houston.hp.com ([15.201.24.19]:34491 "EHLO g4t0016.houston.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761102AbZLJQri (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:47:38 -0500 Message-ID: <4B21262E.4020503@hp.com> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:47:42 -0500 From: jim owens User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Jenkins CC: Randy Dunlap , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel , Dan Carpenter , Jes Sorensen Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/email-clients.txt: clarify Thunderbird section References: <4B210C6C.3060103@tuffmail.co.uk> <4B2110E3.8010508@hp.com> <4B2120F2.3090301@tuffmail.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4B2120F2.3090301@tuffmail.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1457 Lines: 37 Alan Jenkins wrote: > /google > > The RFC for format=flowed says that it should escape lines which start > with a space (by "space stuffing" - prepending an additional space). So > in theory it should completely break patches. And indeed it does > > > Using HTML preformat in current versions of Thunderbird appears to send > with a format=flowed content-type, and then violates the RFC by not > performing any space-stuffing. > > So if I look at format=flowed patch in my Sent email folder, I see that > the message viewer correctly strips the first leading space in each > line. I.e. it breaks if you use copy+paste to get the patch out of > Thunderbird (or any other format=flowed aware client). File->Save As > preserves the spaces though, allowing the patch to be applied. > > Regards > Alan "Don't you feel better knowing that" Thanks, yes I do... Since the text wrap=0 also shut off "space stuffing" on send in my version (as seen by the raw message on my smtp gateway), I'm thinking they have html/text consistent sending bugs. So I'll use the "format=flowed,false" in my prefs so they don't blow me away with a future fix :) jim -- 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/