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[81.217.87.223]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id p19-20020a056402075300b0043a7cdfac46sm1019415edy.23.2022.07.14.06.12.01 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Thu, 14 Jul 2022 06:12:01 -0700 (PDT) From: sndanailov@gmail.com To: corbet@lwn.net Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bagasdotme@gmail.com, Sotir Danailov Subject: [PATCH v2] Documentation: process: Update email client instructions for Thunderbird Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2022 15:11:52 +0200 Message-Id: <20220714131152.12709-1-sndanailov@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.37.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" From: Sotir Danailov The instructions don't match with the current Thunderbird interface. Clarification on using external extensions. New information on how to avoid writing HTML emails. Signed-off-by: Sotir Danailov Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Tested-by: Randy Dunlap --- Changelog since v1: - better external extensions explanation - information on avoiding HTML emails v1: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/20220713225037.1201-1-sndanailov@gmai= l.com/ Documentation/process/email-clients.rst | 64 +++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/process/email-clients.rst b/Documentation/proces= s/email-clients.rst index 16586f6cc888..229cbde5b62c 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/email-clients.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/email-clients.rst @@ -278,35 +278,57 @@ Thunderbird is an Outlook clone that likes to mangle = text, but there are ways to coerce it into behaving. =20 - Allow use of an external editor: - The easiest thing to do with Thunderbird and patches is to use an - "external editor" extension and then just use your favorite ``$EDITOR`` - for reading/merging patches into the body text. To do this, download - and install the extension, then add a button for it using - :menuselection:`View-->Toolbars-->Customize...` and finally just click o= n it - when in the :menuselection:`Compose` dialog. - - Please note that "external editor" requires that your editor must not - fork, or in other words, the editor must not return before closing. - You may have to pass additional flags or change the settings of your - editor. Most notably if you are using gvim then you must pass the -f - option to gvim by putting ``/usr/bin/gvim -f`` (if the binary is in - ``/usr/bin``) to the text editor field in :menuselection:`external edito= r` - settings. If you are using some other editor then please read its manual - to find out how to do this. + + The easiest thing to do with Thunderbird and patches is to use extensions + which open your favorite external editor. + + Here are some example extensions which are capable of doing this. + + - "External Editor Revived" + + https://github.com/Frederick888/external-editor-revived + + https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-GB/thunderbird/addon/external-editor= -revived/ + + It requires installing a "native messaging host". + Please read the wiki which can be found here: + https://github.com/Frederick888/external-editor-revived/wiki + + - "External Editor" (for older versions of Thunderbird) + + https://github.com/exteditor/exteditor + + To do this, download and install the extension, then open the + :menuselection:`compose` window, add a button for it using + :menuselection:`View-->Toolbars-->Customize...` then + just click on the new button when you wish to use the external editor. + + Please note that "External Editor" requires that your editor must not + fork, or in other words, the editor must not return before closing. + You may have to pass additional flags or change the settings of your + editor. Most notably if you are using gvim then you must pass the -f + option to gvim by putting ``/usr/bin/gvim --nofork"`` (if the binary i= s in + ``/usr/bin``) to the text editor field in :menuselection:`external edi= tor` + settings. If you are using some other editor then please read its manu= al + to find out how to do this. =20 To beat some sense out of the internal editor, do this: =20 -- Edit your Thunderbird config settings so that it won't use ``format=3Dfl= owed``. - Go to :menuselection:`edit-->preferences-->advanced-->config editor` to = bring up +- Edit your Thunderbird config settings so that it won't use ``format=3Dfl= owed``! + Go to your main window and find the button for your main dropdown menu. + :menuselection:`Main Menu-->Preferences-->General-->Config Editor...` to= bring up the thunderbird's registry editor. =20 -- Set ``mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed`` to ``false`` + - Set ``mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed`` to ``false`` =20 -- Set ``mailnews.wraplength`` from ``72`` to ``0`` + - Set ``mailnews.wraplength`` from ``72`` to ``0`` =20 -- :menuselection:`View-->Message Body As-->Plain Text` +- Don't write HTML messages! Go to the main window + :menuselection:`Main Menu-->Account Settings-->youracc@server.something-= ->Composition & Addressing`! + There you can disable the option "Compose messages in HTML format". =20 -- :menuselection:`View-->Character Encoding-->Unicode (UTF-8)` +- Open messages only as plain text! Go to the main window + :menuselection:`Main Menu-->View-->Message Body As-->Plain Text`! =20 TkRat (GUI) *********** --=20 2.37.0