[PATCH 2/4] Documentation: update thunderbird email client settings

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Thu May 15 2014 - 16:54:31 EST


From: Paul McQuade <paulmcquad@xxxxxxxxx>

Added setting to email-clients that is easier to read
and is easier to setup thunderbird. Removed config settings
and added GUI settings.

Signed-off-by: Paul McQuade <paulmcquad@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/email-clients.txt | 15 +++++----------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

--- lnx-315-rc2.orig/Documentation/email-clients.txt
+++ lnx-315-rc2/Documentation/email-clients.txt
@@ -201,20 +201,15 @@ To beat some sense out of the internal e

- Edit your Thunderbird config settings so that it won't use format=flowed.
Go to "edit->preferences->advanced->config editor" to bring up the
- thunderbird's registry editor, and set "mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed" to
- "false".
+ thunderbird's registry editor.

-- Disable HTML Format: Set "mail.identity.id1.compose_html" to "false".
+- Set "mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed" to "false"

-- Enable "preformat" mode: Set "editor.quotesPreformatted" to "true".
+- Set "mailnews.wraplength" from "72" to "0"

-- Enable UTF8: Set "prefs.converted-to-utf8" to "true".
+- "View" > "Message Body As" > "Plain Text"

-- Install the "toggle wordwrap" extension. Download the file from:
- https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/addon/2351/
- Then go to "tools->add ons", select "install" at the bottom of the screen,
- and browse to where you saved the .xul file. This adds an "Enable
- Wordwrap" entry under the Options menu of the message composer.
+- "View" > "Character Encoding" > "Unicode (UTF-8)"

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
TkRat (GUI)
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/