On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:37:20 +0000
Chris Boot <bootc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> hold my hand on this one! :-) Also, I've had to attach it since I can't
> figure out how to get Thunderbird to preserve tabs.
You can find email-clients.txt in Linux kernel source code. It might
be useful:
Thunderbird (GUI)
By default, thunderbird likes to mangle text, but there are ways to
coerce it into being nice.
- Under account settings, composition and addressing, uncheck "Compose
messages in HTML format".
- Edit your Thunderbird config settings to tell it not to wrap lines:
user_pref("mailnews.wraplength", 0);
- Edit your Thunderbird config settings so that it won't use format=flowed:
user_pref("mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed", false);
- You need to get Thunderbird into preformat mode:
. If you compose HTML messages by default, it's not too hard. Just select
"Preformat" from the drop-down box just under the subject line.
. If you compose in text by default, you have to tell it to compose a new
message in HTML (just as a one-off), and then force it from there back to
text, else it will wrap lines. To do this, use shift-click on the Write
icon to compose to get HTML compose mode, then select "Preformat" from
the drop-down box just under the subject line.
- Allows 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
View->Toolbars->Customize... and finally just click on it when in the
Compose dialog.
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