Re: Thunderbird and patches (was Re: [PATCH v2] Enable setting attach as the default in .gitconfig for git-format-patch.)

From: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Date: Feb 9, 2009, 22:13 UTC
Message-ID: <1quO9vKdveU3UD9xhBB6YkuoBUyUsLvXylSjOkZKRByKfUxgId9fwQ@cipher.nrlssc.navy.mil>
In-Reply-To: <4990A7D6.5090709@beonex.com>

Ben Bucksch wrote:

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> On 09.02.2009 22:03, Brandon Casey wrote:
>> > So, TB *does* save it correctly, byte-for-byte.
>>
>> Sorry, but I think you did your comparison wrong.  Possibly the tool
>> which extracted the email from the cyrus server performed the same
>> transformation that Thunderbird does.
>>    
> 
> No. Cyrus stores each mail in its own file. All I did was:
> TB | File | Save as.... | "1.eml"
> scp root@<imap server>:/<mailbox store path>/<mail folder path>/749\. 2.eml
> md5sum 1.eml 2.eml
> b98d288357e384b8f58fe332ed65748b  1.eml
> b98d288357e384b8f58fe332ed65748b  2.eml
> (the md5sum will be different for you, as my mail contains the Received:
> headers from my server.)
> Given that I don't think TB changes the email on the server, what TB
> saved is exactly what I received, verbatim, on the wire.

Any thoughts on why I get different results from

  TB | File | Save as... | 1.eml

and

  TB | View | Message Source ... File | Save Page as | 2.eml

-brandon