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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 16 |
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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. 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. |