Thunderbird warning repeat - use --attach

[Jeremy White]

So it seems as though every month or so, some id10t is bit by
the Thunderbird bug where it mangles perfectly reasonable looking
git-format-patch drafts.

This month, I won the prize! :-)

I had always habitually done --attach, because that's what GitWine says to do.
But after scratching my head, reading man pages, and
checking my drafts, I decided that was lame; inline is always nicer, and
I dropped the --attach.  Big mistake; the draft may look okay, but the end result
is mangled somehow.

Thanks to Dmitry for alerting me.

I've filed a bug with Mozilla over this:
   https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=435020

My sense is that its a subtle bug of some kind; I've had a hard
time articulating a strategy to reproduce it (which, by Occam's
razor, immediately suggests I'm just missing something :-/).

So if others are bit by this and can share any clues or tips
for the Mozilla devs on how to reproduce it, I'd appreciate it.

Cheers,

Jeremy

[Boaz Harrosh]

Jeremy White wrote:
> So it seems as though every month or so, some id10t is bit by
> the Thunderbird bug where it mangles perfectly reasonable looking
> git-format-patch drafts.
>
> This month, I won the prize! :-)
>
> I had always habitually done --attach, because that's what GitWine says to do.
> But after scratching my head, reading man pages, and
> checking my drafts, I decided that was lame; inline is always nicer, and
> I dropped the --attach.  Big mistake; the draft may look okay, but the end result
> is mangled somehow.
>
> Thanks to Dmitry for alerting me.
>
> I've filed a bug with Mozilla over this:
>    https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=435020
>
> My sense is that its a subtle bug of some kind; I've had a hard
> time articulating a strategy to reproduce it (which, by Occam's
> razor, immediately suggests I'm just missing something :-/).
>
> So if others are bit by this and can share any clues or tips
> for the Mozilla devs on how to reproduce it, I'd appreciate it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeremy

It's a known issue with Thunderbird and git. you need to set
mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed = false
and 
mailnews.wraplength = 0

Cheers 
Boaz

[Steven Edwards]

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Jeremy White <jwhite(a)codeweavers.com> wrote:
> So it seems as though every month or so, some id10t is bit by
> the Thunderbird bug where it mangles perfectly reasonable looking
> git-format-patch drafts.
>
> This month, I won the prize! :-)

You mean your not using outlook for your email. =P

-- 
Steven Edwards

"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and
that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo

[Jeremy White]

Steven Edwards wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Jeremy White <jwhite(a)codeweavers.com> wrote:
> > So it seems as though every month or so, some id10t is bit by
> > the Thunderbird bug where it mangles perfectly reasonable looking
> > git-format-patch drafts.
> >
> > This month, I won the prize! :-)
>
> You mean your not using outlook for your email. =P

Outlook 2007 (even on Windows) chokes on my (rather large) IMAP mail box :-(, else
I would be...

[Maarten Lankhorst]

Hi Jeremy

2008/5/21 Jeremy White <jwhite(a)codeweavers.com>:
> Steven Edwards wrote:
> > On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Jeremy White <jwhite(a)codeweavers.com> wrote:
> > > So it seems as though every month or so, some id10t is bit by
> > > the Thunderbird bug where it mangles perfectly reasonable looking
> > > git-format-patch drafts.
> > >
> > > This month, I won the prize! :-)
> >
> > You mean your not using outlook for your email. =P
>
> Outlook 2007 (even on Windows) chokes on my (rather large) IMAP mail box :-(, else
> I would be...

When I had to send in some kernel patches I used
http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/Mailing-patches which has some nice
things about patch settings. Maybe it helps.

Cheers,
Maarten.