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authorPaul Mcquade <paulmcquad@gmail.com>2011-08-13 15:34:54 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-08-13 21:34:03 -0400
commit6989b5bb2f0302d824bfc5a9272e17eef22353cc (patch)
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parent1629024668d485d9ee8c5a6c9906b19ffd9a49d9 (diff)
Documentation: email-clients: Add better Thunderbird information
Add better Thunderbird information. Add Thunderbird Registry instructions to: Enable UTF8 & Preformat mode Disable HTML mode Signed-off-by: Paul McQuade <paulmcquad@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -199,18 +199,16 @@ to coerce it into behaving.
199 199
200To beat some sense out of the internal editor, do this: 200To beat some sense out of the internal editor, do this:
201 201
202- Under account settings, composition and addressing, uncheck "Compose
203 messages in HTML format".
204
205- Edit your Thunderbird config settings so that it won't use format=flowed. 202- Edit your Thunderbird config settings so that it won't use format=flowed.
206 Go to "edit->preferences->advanced->config editor" to bring up the 203 Go to "edit->preferences->advanced->config editor" to bring up the
207 thunderbird's registry editor, and set "mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed" to 204 thunderbird's registry editor, and set "mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed" to
208 "false". 205 "false".
209 206
210- Enable "preformat" mode: Shft-click on the Write icon to bring up the HTML 207- Disable HTML Format: Set "mail.identity.id1.compose_html" to "false".
211 composer, select "Preformat" from the drop-down box just under the subject 208
212 line, then close the message without saving. (This setting also applies to 209- Enable "preformat" mode: Set "editor.quotesPreformatted" to "true".
213 the text composer, but the only control for it is in the HTML composer.) 210
211- Enable UTF8: Set "prefs.converted-to-utf8" to "true".
214 212
215- Install the "toggle wordwrap" extension. Download the file from: 213- Install the "toggle wordwrap" extension. Download the file from:
216 https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/addon/2351/ 214 https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/addon/2351/