From 097091c0a83754f426b3d0b22afa6c984752dbf7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Opdenacker <michael@free-electrons.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 18:06:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: mention email-clients.txt in SubmittingPatches
I was struggling to get my email-client no to mangle my patch files,
and I didn't find enough information in the SubmittingPatches file.
By looking for more information on the web, I eventually found the
email-clients.txt file, and it answered all my needs
This patch adds a reference to email-clients.txt in SubmittingPatches,
and Mozilla related information which is no longer accurate
(as opposed to the details found in email-clients.txt).
This should be helpful for people sending their first patches,
or not sending patches on a frequent basis.
Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
---
Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 16 ++--------------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index 681e2b36195c9..08a1ed1cb5d84 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.
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