Ben Bucksch wrote: > On 09.02.2009 20:14, Johannes Schindelin wrote: >> On 09.02.2009 19:54, Brandon Casey wrote: >>>> I will follow up with an example patch which has the control >>>> characters in it. >>>> > >> Especially the "Save" command will save the byte-identical body of the >> mail. >> > > I think Thunderbird will also save a byte-identical copy of the mail, if > you use File | Save... and use ".eml" (for email = RFC822) file extension. Did you try it with the message I sent titled '[PATCH] example patch corrupted by thunderbird'? The body of the patch has 1 hunk which adds 6 lines. When I save with Thunderbird, part of what was on line 5 is now on another line and the control-M is missing. At least that is what is apparent to me. > The dialog is sensitive to the file extension and determines the format > based on that, but is unfortunately not communicative about it. I did not modify the suggested file name. The saved file has a '.eml' extension. > If you save as HTML (.html) or plaintext (.txt), it runs it through the > MIME converters and reformats it for display / human reading. Nope, '.eml' extension. -brandon -- 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
