Re: Gmail and flowed text (was Re: Correction to LZO1X)

["Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>]

On 11/07/07, Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@gmail.com> wrote:
> [ off the original topic, Cc: list trimmed ]
>
> On 7/11/07, Nitin Gupta <nitingupta910@gmail.com> wrote:
> > [...]
> >  #define LZO1X_MEM_COMPRESS     (16384 * sizeof(unsigned char *))
> >  #define LZO1X_1_MEM_COMPRESS   LZO1X_MEM_COMPRESS
> >
> > -#define lzo1x_worst_compress(x) (x + (x / 64) + 16 + 3)
> > +#define lzo1x_worst_compress(x) ((x) + ((x) / 16) + 64 + 3)
> >
> >  /* This requires 'workmem' of size LZO1X_1_MEM_COMPRESS */
> >  int lzo1x_1_compress(const unsigned char *src, size_t src_len,
>
> And yet another patch falls victim to format=flowed ...
>
> I need some ideas here myself:
>
> I don't want to subscribe from my university mail account -- I like
> to keep important messages on server, and the account has a
> 100 MB or so limit that wouldn't survive a week of lkml traffic.
>
> Which leaves Gmail, but Gmail has the flowed text disease (that
> cannot be disabled) and although Gmail offers SMTP/POP, our evil
> proxy/NAT setup here wouldn't let me make any use of it to access
> it from some other MUA such as pine/mutt.
>
> I use Paul Jackson's wonderful "sendpatchset" script (when sending
> patches that start new threads), but it's frustrating not to be able to
> reply to existing threads with patches from Gmail itself (from which I
> have subscribed to lkml).
>
> I suspect others must have come across this ... any suggestions?
>

1) talk to the administrators and convince them to allow you to use
gmails SMTP/POP feature with a different MUA so you don't have to use
the web interface.

2) If you have a box available at home (or elsewhere), use that to
relay mail through.

3) Use attachments for patches (sucks, but you may have to).


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