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authorMichael Opdenacker <michael@free-electrons.com>2008-02-03 11:06:58 -0500
committerAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>2008-02-03 11:06:58 -0500
commit097091c0a83754f426b3d0b22afa6c984752dbf7 (patch)
treee2608b0a7e372249a4d1bb592d8dd8a16d12e2b8
parent09c6dd3c9d99b63608dc77dc462d4a5a3785f620 (diff)
Documentation: mention email-clients.txt in SubmittingPatches
I was struggling to get my email-client no to mangle my patch files, and I didn't find enough information in the SubmittingPatches file. By looking for more information on the web, I eventually found the email-clients.txt file, and it answered all my needs This patch adds a reference to email-clients.txt in SubmittingPatches, and Mozilla related information which is no longer accurate (as opposed to the details found in email-clients.txt). This should be helpful for people sending their first patches, or not sending patches on a frequent basis. Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael@free-electrons.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index 681e2b36195c..08a1ed1cb5d8 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -220,20 +220,8 @@ decreasing the likelihood of your MIME-attached change being accepted.
220Exception: If your mailer is mangling patches then someone may ask 220Exception: If your mailer is mangling patches then someone may ask
221you to re-send them using MIME. 221you to re-send them using MIME.
222 222
223 223See Documentation/email-clients.txt for hints about configuring
224WARNING: Some mailers like Mozilla send your messages with 224your e-mail client so that it sends your patches untouched.
225---- message header ----
226Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
227---- message header ----
228The problem is that "format=flowed" makes some of the mailers
229on receiving side to replace TABs with spaces and do similar
230changes. Thus the patches from you can look corrupted.
231
232To fix this just make your mozilla defaults/pref/mailnews.js file to look like:
233pref("mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed", false); // RFC 2646=======
234pref("mailnews.display.disable_format_flowed_support", true);
235
236
237 225
2388) E-mail size. 2268) E-mail size.
239 227