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Commit f9a0974d authored by Paul McQuade's avatar Paul McQuade Committed by Linus Torvalds
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Documentation: update thunderbird email client settings 



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: default avatarPaul McQuade <paulmcquad@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent f9b899c4

Documentation/email-clients.txt

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- 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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