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

["Dave Young" <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>]

>On 7/11/07, Alistair John Strachan <alistair@devzero.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 July 2007 16:21:44 Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 07:06:23PM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > Given the amount of google people here maybe someone can get this
> > piece of junk called gmail fixed?  If google claims they're not
> > evil they should stop sending broken patches around..
>
> It'd be nice if they stopped mangling headers too (spaces->tabs).
>
Yes, it's boring for gmail users, I generally read messages from gmail
web pages, and send patches via mutt with ssmtp.
1. write ~/.mutt/ssmpt.conf as follows:
mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:587
UseSTARTTLS=YES
UseTLS=YES
AuthUser=yourid@gmail.com
AuthPass=***
FromLineOverride=YES

2. write ~/.mutt/ssmpt script:
#!/bin/sh
/usr/sbin/ssmtp -C ~/.mutt/ssmtp.conf $@

3.add the follow line to ~/.mutt/muttrc
set sendmail="~/.mutt/ssmtp"

Regards
dave