From 6989b5bb2f0302d824bfc5a9272e17eef22353cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Mcquade Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 12:34:54 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: email-clients: Add better Thunderbird information Add better Thunderbird information. Add Thunderbird Registry instructions to: Enable UTF8 & Preformat mode Disable HTML mode Signed-off-by: Paul McQuade Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/email-clients.txt | 12 +++++------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/email-clients.txt b/Documentation/email-clients.txt index a0b58e29..860c29a 100644 --- a/Documentation/email-clients.txt +++ b/Documentation/email-clients.txt @@ -199,18 +199,16 @@ to coerce it into behaving. To beat some sense out of the internal editor, do this: -- Under account settings, composition and addressing, uncheck "Compose - messages in HTML format". - - 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". -- Enable "preformat" mode: Shft-click on the Write icon to bring up the HTML - composer, select "Preformat" from the drop-down box just under the subject - line, then close the message without saving. (This setting also applies to - the text composer, but the only control for it is in the HTML composer.) +- Disable HTML Format: Set "mail.identity.id1.compose_html" to "false". + +- Enable "preformat" mode: Set "editor.quotesPreformatted" to "true". + +- Enable UTF8: Set "prefs.converted-to-utf8" to "true". - Install the "toggle wordwrap" extension. Download the file from: https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/addon/2351/ -- 2.7.4