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| author | Paul Mcquade <paulmcquad@gmail.com> | 2011-08-13 12:34:54 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-08-13 18:34:03 -0700 |
| commit | 6989b5bb2f0302d824bfc5a9272e17eef22353cc (patch) | |
| tree | 3cdf7cbafd561f10ded0fc583ce1c61b233fadca /Documentation/email-clients.txt | |
| parent | 1629024668d485d9ee8c5a6c9906b19ffd9a49d9 (diff) | |
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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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/email-clients.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/email-clients.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/email-clients.txt b/Documentation/email-clients.txt index a0b58e29f911..860c29a472ad 100644 --- a/Documentation/email-clients.txt +++ b/Documentation/email-clients.txt @@ -199,18 +199,16 @@ to coerce it into behaving. To beat some sense out of the internal editor, do this: -- Under account settings, composition and addressing, uncheck "Compose - messages in HTML format". - - Edit your Thunderbird config settings so that it won't use format=flowed. Go to "edit->preferences->advanced->config editor" to bring up the thunderbird's registry editor, and set "mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed" to "false". -- Enable "preformat" mode: Shft-click on the Write icon to bring up the HTML - composer, select "Preformat" from the drop-down box just under the subject - line, then close the message without saving. (This setting also applies to - the text composer, but the only control for it is in the HTML composer.) +- Disable HTML Format: Set "mail.identity.id1.compose_html" to "false". + +- Enable "preformat" mode: Set "editor.quotesPreformatted" to "true". + +- Enable UTF8: Set "prefs.converted-to-utf8" to "true". - Install the "toggle wordwrap" extension. Download the file from: https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/addon/2351/ |