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25 | 25 | it makes quoting portions of the patch more difficult in the patch |
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26 | 26 | review process. |
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27 | 27 | |
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| 28 | +It's also strongly recommended that you use plain text in your email body, |
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| 29 | +for patches and other emails alike. https://useplaintext.email may be useful |
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| 30 | +for information on how to configure your preferred email client, as well as |
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| 31 | +listing recommended email clients should you not already have a preference. |
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| 32 | + |
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28 | 33 | Email clients that are used for Linux kernel patches should send the |
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29 | 34 | patch text untouched. For example, they should not modify or delete tabs |
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30 | 35 | or spaces, even at the beginning or end of lines. |
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40 | 45 | If you configure your email client to send emails with UTF-8 encoding, |
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41 | 46 | you avoid some possible charset problems. |
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42 | 47 | |
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43 | | -Email clients should generate and maintain References: or In-Reply-To: |
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| 48 | +Email clients should generate and maintain "References:" or "In-Reply-To:" |
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44 | 49 | headers so that mail threading is not broken. |
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45 | 50 | |
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46 | 51 | Copy-and-paste (or cut-and-paste) usually does not work for patches |
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90 | 95 | Works. Some people use this successfully for patches. |
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91 | 96 | |
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92 | | -To insert a patch use :menuselection:`Message-->Insert` File (:kbd:`CTRL-I`) |
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| 97 | +To insert a patch use :menuselection:`Message-->Insert File` (:kbd:`CTRL-I`) |
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93 | 98 | or an external editor. |
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94 | 99 | |
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95 | 100 | If the inserted patch has to be edited in the Claws composition window |
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132 | 137 | At the bottom of your email, put the commonly-used patch delimiter before |
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133 | 138 | inserting your patch: three hyphens (``---``). |
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134 | 139 | |
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135 | | -Then from the :menuselection:`Message` menu item, select insert file and |
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136 | | -choose your patch. |
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| 140 | +Then from the :menuselection:`Message` menu item, select |
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| 141 | +:menuselection:`insert file` and choose your patch. |
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137 | 142 | As an added bonus you can customise the message creation toolbar menu |
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138 | 143 | and put the :menuselection:`insert file` icon there. |
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139 | 144 | |
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149 | 154 | as inlined text will make them tricky to extract from their 7-bit encoding. |
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150 | 155 | |
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151 | 156 | If you absolutely must send patches as attachments instead of inlining |
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152 | | -them as text, right click on the attachment and select properties, and |
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153 | | -highlight :menuselection:`Suggest automatic display` to make the attachment |
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| 157 | +them as text, right click on the attachment and select :menuselection:`properties`, |
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| 158 | +and highlight :menuselection:`Suggest automatic display` to make the attachment |
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154 | 159 | inlined to make it more viewable. |
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155 | 160 | |
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156 | 161 | When saving patches that are sent as inlined text, select the email that |
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157 | 162 | contains the patch from the message list pane, right click and select |
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158 | 163 | :menuselection:`save as`. You can use the whole email unmodified as a patch |
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159 | | -if it was properly composed. There is no option currently to save the email |
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160 | | -when you are actually viewing it in its own window -- there has been a request |
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161 | | -filed at kmail's bugzilla and hopefully this will be addressed. Emails are |
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162 | | -saved as read-write for user only so you will have to chmod them to make them |
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163 | | -group and world readable if you copy them elsewhere. |
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| 164 | +if it was properly composed. Emails are saved as read-write for user only so |
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| 165 | +you will have to chmod them to make them group and world readable if you copy |
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| 166 | +them elsewhere. |
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164 | 167 | |
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165 | 168 | Lotus Notes (GUI) |
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239 | 242 | |
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240 | 243 | The Mutt docs have lots more information: |
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241 | 244 | |
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242 | | - http://dev.mutt.org/trac/wiki/UseCases/Gmail |
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| 245 | + https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/-/wikis/UseCases/Gmail |
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243 | 246 | |
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244 | | - http://dev.mutt.org/doc/manual.html |
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| 247 | + http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/ |
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245 | 248 | |
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246 | 249 | Pine (TUI) |
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247 | 250 | ********** |
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