On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:05:47 -0600 Chris Friesen wrote: > On 12/10/2009 10:25 AM, Alan Jenkins wrote: > > > The RFC for format=flowed says that it should escape lines which start > > with a space (by "space stuffing" - prepending an additional space). So > > in theory it should completely break patches. And indeed it does > > <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java-patches/2003-q2/msg00315.html> > > > > Using HTML preformat in current versions of Thunderbird appears to send > > with a format=flowed content-type, and then violates the RFC by not > > performing any space-stuffing. > > > > So if I look at format=flowed patch in my Sent email folder, I see that > > the message viewer correctly strips the first leading space in each > > line. I.e. it breaks if you use copy+paste to get the patch out of > > Thunderbird (or any other format=flowed aware client). File->Save As > > preserves the spaces though, allowing the patch to be applied. > > Hmm...I'm using Thunderbird 3 beta4, and it appears that when sending > via the "preformat" mechanism it actually does perform space-stuffing. > This is visible as an extra leading space when looking at the raw source > of the sent (or received) email via ctrl-U. > > However, if one turns off format=flowed, but leaves wrap set to 72, then > the html preformat works without having to set the wrap to 0. Surely this help text needs to be updated. It's most likely a moving target (how thunderbird acts, that is), but anything that helps is good. --- ~Randy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
