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| author | Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> | 2006-09-29 02:01:47 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-09-29 09:18:25 -0700 |
| commit | 683e91cbd0582cb8e63daaf0429e0a62be9cc421 (patch) | |
| tree | 1035937aabb0736ffa7ff5e9b2180c2ecb2b54e3 /Documentation/SubmittingPatches | |
| parent | 03cbc358aab3faf34bfeaa02206fa660127e9b3f (diff) | |
| download | lwn-683e91cbd0582cb8e63daaf0429e0a62be9cc421.tar.gz lwn-683e91cbd0582cb8e63daaf0429e0a62be9cc421.zip | |
[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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/SubmittingPatches')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 958182f6aa1f..302d148c2e18 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. |