Patch included below. As an aside, thank you for the excellent work on the books and other documentation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Documentation: email-clients.txt The information for Claws Mail, Evolution and Thunderbird was out of date. It has been updated with new instructions and warnings. Signed-off-by: Sanidhya Solanki <jpage.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/email-clients.txt | 19 +++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/email-clients.txt b/Documentation/email-clients.txt index 2d485de..8819c90 100644 --- a/Documentation/email-clients.txt +++ b/Documentation/email-clients.txt @@ -79,17 +79,27 @@ to insert into the message. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Claws Mail (GUI) -Works. Some people use this successfully for patches. +Tested and Works as of December 2015. Some people use this successfully +for patches. To insert a patch use Message->Insert File (CTRL+i) or an external editor. If the inserted patch has to be edited in the Claws composition window "Auto wrapping" in Configuration->Preferences->Compose->Wrapping should be -disabled. +disabled. Also, under the heading "View", sub-heading "Character Encoding" +, choose "Unicode (UTF - 8)" + +Do remember that if you insert or type something in the main text area, +and decide to delete it, you will need to reset the formatting by opening +a new window for the change you want to make. Re-using the window in which +you deleted the text will lead to the new message being mangled. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Evolution (GUI) +As of December 2015, the composing & inserting method described below +does not work. + Some people use this successfully for patches. When composing mail select: Preformat @@ -244,8 +254,9 @@ Sylpheed (GUI) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thunderbird (GUI) -Thunderbird is an Outlook clone that likes to mangle text, but there are ways -to coerce it into behaving. +Thunderbird is an Outlook clone that likes to mangle text, but there are +ways to coerce it into behaving. In December 2015, the internal editor +options do not appear to work. - Allow use of an external editor: The easiest thing to do with Thunderbird and patches is to use an -- 2.5.0 -- 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
