From f9a0974d3f7049f6f753ebd28b8f0907983acf3c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul McQuade Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 13:54:25 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] 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: Paul McQuade Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/email-clients.txt | 15 +++++---------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/email-clients.txt b/Documentation/email-clients.txt index e9f5daccbd02..4e30ebaa9e5b 100644 --- a/Documentation/email-clients.txt +++ b/Documentation/email-clients.txt @@ -201,20 +201,15 @@ 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)" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TkRat (GUI)