Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932947Ab0HKKMF (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Aug 2010 06:12:05 -0400 Received: from mail-wy0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:42378 "EHLO mail-wy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932935Ab0HKKMD convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Aug 2010 06:12:03 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4C624AE1.30504@st.com> References: <4C5F9B25.8080401@st.com> <4C624AE1.30504@st.com> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:11:57 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Query: Patches break with Microsoft exchange server. From: Valeo de Vries To: viresh kumar Cc: linux-kernel Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1790 Lines: 44 On 11 August 2010 08:01, viresh kumar wrote: > On 8/11/2010 3:34 AM, Felipe Contreras wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 9:07 AM, viresh kumar wrote: >>> > Mail server in ST has recently changed and now we have Microsoft >>> > exchange server. We are using thunderbird as mail client. >>> > What we observed with this server is that patch are broken now while >>> > sending as well as receiving. Tabs are replaced by spaces and may >>> > be some other too which we haven't observed. >>> > >>> > Has anybody found a solution to this kind of issues? Are there any >>> > workarounds possible? >> Same in Nokia. I wrote a script to fix exchange's crap, but I also >> noticed some quoted-printable mails didn't get converted, so the >> easiest would be to tell git to always send quoted-printable. >> > > Hi Guys > > The situation has changed now. > We are informed that SP2 is already in place in ST and mail client is not > doing any tampering. > > When i send a mail using git send-email then it receives fine on > outlook but on thunderbird, tabs are converted to spaces. > > This doesn't happen with every patch on thunderbird, but only a few. > And observation is that it happens only with big patches. > (more than 500 lines) > > Any idea, how to solve issue now on thunderbird?? You might be in luck: * Choose View ? Toolbars to ensure that the formatting toolbar is visible, then at the left of the formatting toolbar change Body Text to Preformat. (lifted straight from Google) HTH, Valeo -- 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/