Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751393Ab0HKKxs (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Aug 2010 06:53:48 -0400 Received: from eu1sys200aog111.obsmtp.com ([207.126.144.131]:44886 "EHLO eu1sys200aog111.obsmtp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751029Ab0HKKxr (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Aug 2010 06:53:47 -0400 Message-ID: <4C62812D.50300@st.com> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:23:33 +0530 From: viresh kumar User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Valeo de Vries Cc: linux-kernel Subject: Re: Query: Patches break with Microsoft exchange server. References: <4C5F9B25.8080401@st.com> <4C624AE1.30504@st.com> In-Reply-To: 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: 2200 Lines: 49 On 8/11/2010 3:41 PM, Valeo de Vries wrote: > 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) I couldn't find preformat. Is this same as plain text? If so i have tried it. I am not facing problem while writing mails from thunderbird but while receiving patches on thunderbird. PS: The problem stated in google is while writing mails. viresh. -- 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/