On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:36, Baz <brian.ewins@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Odd. If I copy and paste from Thunderbird, its fine. But if I >>> save the body out as an attachment from mutt, it fails. >>> >>> I wonder if it has to do with the From header appearing in the top >>> of the body; this header has to be escaped with a leading space in >>> mbox format. It looks like Thunderbird might be doing some magic to >>> remove that leading space from the context lines, while mutt isn't. > > FYI: the Thunderbird version included this header: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > The format=flowed part shows that Thunderbird is reformatting > whitespace. You can disable that: > http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plain_text_e-mail_-_Thunderbird#Completely_plain_email Thanks, this was indeed helpful. I was relying on the "Toggle Word Wrap" extension [1] to handle this, but apparently it only changes how the *sender* sees the message, but does not remove "format=flowed" if word wrap is turned off. I've sent an according suggestion to the extension's author. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2351 -- Sebastian Schuberth -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html