From 097091c0a83754f426b3d0b22afa6c984752dbf7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Opdenacker Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 18:06:58 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Acked-by: Jeff Garzik Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk --- Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 16 ++-------------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 681e2b36195..08a1ed1cb5d 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -220,20 +220,8 @@ decreasing the likelihood of your MIME-attached change being accepted. 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); - - +See Documentation/email-clients.txt for hints about configuring +your e-mail client so that it sends your patches untouched. 8) E-mail size.