Re: Question about attachments on the mailing list

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On Fri, 29 Nov 2019, Erick Ochoa wrote:

> * I previously had some difficulties with how my e-mail client was rendering
> messages I sent to the mailing list [2][3]. Does anyone have any
> recommendations on e-mail clients / techniques to ensure that the way I type
> messages on my client is the way the messages will be displayed on the mailing
> list? (For example, I am currently using Thunderbird writing text only
> messages and Thunderbird wraps lines at ~70 characters. I am currently unaware
> if this message will have lines with more than 70 characters or if newlines
> will be inserted by my client). This makes my patches look like they are not
> formatted correctly (and possibly become poorly formatted).

You'll have to prevent Thunderbird from using format=flowed in your emails.
The kernel community has some documentation for setting up email clients for
emailing patches, please see https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.4/process/email-clients.html
(instructions for Thunderbird are towards the end of that page).

Alexander



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