Re: recommended mail clients [was] [PATCH] ati-agp suspend/resume support (try 2)

[Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>]

On Monday 26 December 2005 14:38, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-12-26 at 10:55 +0200, Jaco Kroon wrote:
> > Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > Your email client did some nasty word wrapping here. I guess the way
> > > to proceed is try #3, this time add my ACK and Cc: akpm...
> >
> > Right, which clients is recommended for this type of work - mozilla is
> > just not doing it for me any more.  I've heard some decent things about
> > mutt, any other recomendations?
> >
> > I've mailed off the patch now using mailx but that isn't going to be an
> > option in the long run.
>
> I use pine and evolution.  Pine is text based and great when I ssh into
> my machine to work.  Evolution is slow, but plays well with pine and it
> handles things needed for LKML very well. (the drop down menu "Normal"
> may be changed to "Preformat", which allows of inserting text files
> "as-is").

Dare I say it, KMail has also been doing the Right Thing for a long time. It 
will only line wrap things that you insert by typing; pastes are left 
untouched.

This satisfies Linus's demand that all patches be part of the email body and 
not an attachment.

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

'No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway.'
Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
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