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Email clients info for Linux
======================================================================
+Git
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+These days most developers use `git send-email` instead of regular
+email clients. The man page for this is quite good. On the receiving
+end, maintainers use `git am` to apply the patches.
+
+If you are new to git then send your first patch to yourself. Save it
+as raw text including all the headers. Run `git am raw_email.txt` and
+then review the changelog with `git log`. When that works then send
+the patch to the appropriate mailing list(s).
+
General Preferences
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Patches for the Linux kernel are submitted via email, preferably as
@@ -201,20 +212,15 @@ To beat some sense out of the internal editor, do this:
- 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)"
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