[PATCH] SubmittingPatches: add a note about "format=flowed" when sending patches

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 <dev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index 958182f6aa1..302d148c2e1 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -209,6 +209,19 @@ Exception:  If your mailer is mangling patches then someone may ask
 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.