Thunderbird warning repeat - use --attach
Boaz Harrosh
boaz at electrozaur.com
Wed May 21 11:11:43 CDT 2008
Jeremy White wrote:
> So it seems as though every month or so, some id10t is bit by
> the Thunderbird bug where it mangles perfectly reasonable looking
> git-format-patch drafts.
>
> This month, I won the prize! :-)
>
> I had always habitually done --attach, because that's what GitWine says to do.
> But after scratching my head, reading man pages, and
> checking my drafts, I decided that was lame; inline is always nicer, and
> I dropped the --attach. Big mistake; the draft may look okay, but the end result
> is mangled somehow.
>
> Thanks to Dmitry for alerting me.
>
> I've filed a bug with Mozilla over this:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=435020
>
> My sense is that its a subtle bug of some kind; I've had a hard
> time articulating a strategy to reproduce it (which, by Occam's
> razor, immediately suggests I'm just missing something :-/).
>
> So if others are bit by this and can share any clues or tips
> for the Mozilla devs on how to reproduce it, I'd appreciate it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeremy
>
It's a known issue with Thunderbird and git. you need to set
mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed = false
and
mailnews.wraplength = 0
Cheers
Boaz
More information about the wine-devel
mailing list