From: Sotir Danailov <sndanailov@xxxxxxxxx> The instructions don't match with the current Thunderbird interface. Clarification on using external extensions. New information on how to avoid writing HTML emails. Signed-off-by: Sotir Danailov <sndanailov@xxxxxxxxx> --- Changelog since v1: - better external extensions explanation - information on avoiding HTML emails v1: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/20220713225037.1201-1-sndanailov@xxxxxxxxx/ Documentation/process/email-clients.rst | 64 +++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/process/email-clients.rst b/Documentation/process/email-clients.rst index 16586f6cc888..229cbde5b62c 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/email-clients.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/email-clients.rst @@ -278,35 +278,57 @@ Thunderbird is an Outlook clone that likes to mangle text, but there are ways to coerce it into behaving. - Allow use of an external editor: - The easiest thing to do with Thunderbird and patches is to use an - "external editor" extension and then just use your favorite ``$EDITOR`` - for reading/merging patches into the body text. To do this, download - and install the extension, then add a button for it using - :menuselection:`View-->Toolbars-->Customize...` and finally just click on it - when in the :menuselection:`Compose` dialog. - - Please note that "external editor" requires that your editor must not - fork, or in other words, the editor must not return before closing. - You may have to pass additional flags or change the settings of your - editor. Most notably if you are using gvim then you must pass the -f - option to gvim by putting ``/usr/bin/gvim -f`` (if the binary is in - ``/usr/bin``) to the text editor field in :menuselection:`external editor` - settings. If you are using some other editor then please read its manual - to find out how to do this. + + The easiest thing to do with Thunderbird and patches is to use extensions + which open your favorite external editor. + + Here are some example extensions which are capable of doing this. + + - "External Editor Revived" + + https://github.com/Frederick888/external-editor-revived + + https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-GB/thunderbird/addon/external-editor-revived/ + + It requires installing a "native messaging host". + Please read the wiki which can be found here: + https://github.com/Frederick888/external-editor-revived/wiki + + - "External Editor" (for older versions of Thunderbird) + + https://github.com/exteditor/exteditor + + To do this, download and install the extension, then open the + :menuselection:`compose` window, add a button for it using + :menuselection:`View-->Toolbars-->Customize...` then + just click on the new button when you wish to use the external editor. + + Please note that "External Editor" requires that your editor must not + fork, or in other words, the editor must not return before closing. + You may have to pass additional flags or change the settings of your + editor. Most notably if you are using gvim then you must pass the -f + option to gvim by putting ``/usr/bin/gvim --nofork"`` (if the binary is in + ``/usr/bin``) to the text editor field in :menuselection:`external editor` + settings. If you are using some other editor then please read its manual + to find out how to do this. To beat some sense out of the internal editor, do this: -- Edit your Thunderbird config settings so that it won't use ``format=flowed``. - Go to :menuselection:`edit-->preferences-->advanced-->config editor` to bring up +- Edit your Thunderbird config settings so that it won't use ``format=flowed``! + Go to your main window and find the button for your main dropdown menu. + :menuselection:`Main Menu-->Preferences-->General-->Config Editor...` to bring up the thunderbird's registry editor. -- Set ``mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed`` to ``false`` + - Set ``mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed`` to ``false`` -- Set ``mailnews.wraplength`` from ``72`` to ``0`` + - Set ``mailnews.wraplength`` from ``72`` to ``0`` -- :menuselection:`View-->Message Body As-->Plain Text` +- Don't write HTML messages! Go to the main window + :menuselection:`Main Menu-->Account Settings-->youracc@server.something-->Composition & Addressing`! + There you can disable the option "Compose messages in HTML format". -- :menuselection:`View-->Character Encoding-->Unicode (UTF-8)` +- Open messages only as plain text! Go to the main window + :menuselection:`Main Menu-->View-->Message Body As-->Plain Text`! TkRat (GUI) *********** -- 2.37.0
