From: Kirill Korotaev 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 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+) diff -puN Documentation/SubmittingPatches~submittingpatches-add-a-note-about-format=flowed-when-sending-patches Documentation/SubmittingPatches --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches~submittingpatches-add-a-note-about-format=flowed-when-sending-patches +++ a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -209,6 +209,19 @@ Exception: If your mailer is mangling p 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. _