From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755225AbaEOUy2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2014 16:54:28 -0400 Received: from merlin.infradead.org ([205.233.59.134]:38098 "EHLO merlin.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754876AbaEOUy0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2014 16:54:26 -0400 Message-ID: <53752981.3040307@infradead.org> Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 13:54:25 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: LKML , Linus Torvalds CC: "linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" , Paul McQuade Subject: [PATCH 2/4] Documentation: update thunderbird email client settings Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Paul McQuade Added setting to email-clients that is easier to read and is easier to setup thunderbird. Removed config settings and added GUI settings. Signed-off-by: Paul McQuade Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap --- Documentation/email-clients.txt | 15 +++++---------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) --- lnx-315-rc2.orig/Documentation/email-clients.txt +++ lnx-315-rc2/Documentation/email-clients.txt @@ -201,20 +201,15 @@ To beat some sense out of the internal e - Edit your Thunderbird config settings so that it won't use format=flowed. Go to "edit->preferences->advanced->config editor" to bring up the - thunderbird's registry editor, and set "mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed" to - "false". + thunderbird's registry editor. -- Disable HTML Format: Set "mail.identity.id1.compose_html" to "false". +- Set "mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed" to "false" -- Enable "preformat" mode: Set "editor.quotesPreformatted" to "true". +- Set "mailnews.wraplength" from "72" to "0" -- Enable UTF8: Set "prefs.converted-to-utf8" to "true". +- "View" > "Message Body As" > "Plain Text" -- Install the "toggle wordwrap" extension. Download the file from: - https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/addon/2351/ - Then go to "tools->add ons", select "install" at the bottom of the screen, - and browse to where you saved the .xul file. This adds an "Enable - Wordwrap" entry under the Options menu of the message composer. +- "View" > "Character Encoding" > "Unicode (UTF-8)" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TkRat (GUI)