[Freeipa-devel] Patches and Thunderbird

[Simo Sorce]

On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 09:51:51 -0500
Adam Young <ayoung at redhat.com> wrote:

> Thunderbird formatting of patches:
> 
>     Thunderbird has a nasty habit of prepending a '>' character to the
>     patch, messing up the format. While it is trivial to edit the
> patch by hand to remove it, the patch sender can help out by
> configuring Thurnderbird this way:
> 
>     * In Thunderbird Preferences,
>     * go to the Advanced->General tab.
>     * Select "Config Editor"
>     * Search for mail.file_attach_binary and
>     * set this value to true
> 
> I've added this to the patch format page.
> 
> https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/wiki/PatchFormat
> 
> I'm making an effort to keep track of the different patches that  are 
> out there and their status, so the more consistent we are, the easier
> it is to do.
> 
> Please make sure at least the patch number is in the title of the
> email you send out.   There are so many patches, that when someone
> refers to their patch 86 it makes it much faster to go and find that
> patch.

FWIW it seem like thunderbird is not at fault here, but something in
between (probably mailman). We will try to get it fixed so that people
do not have to care about this at all and we do not have to provide
instructions for the gazillion MUAs around there.

Simo.

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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York