From 683e91cbd0582cb8e63daaf0429e0a62be9cc421 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 02:01:47 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [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>
---
Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 13 +++++++++++++
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
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.
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