From: Ben Bucksch Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:51:03 GMT Subject: Re: Thunderbird and patches (was Re: [PATCH v2] Enable setting attach as the default in .gitconfig for git-format-patch.) Message-ID: <49908927.2030408@beonex.com> In-Reply-To: On 09.02.2009 20:30, Brandon Casey wrote: > Did you try it with the message I sent titled > '[PATCH] example patch corrupted by thunderbird'? I tried now, and none of the editors/viewers I tried are displaying anything that would come close to readable to me, even if you count clearly marked hex character codes as readable. I tried less, e3 and kwrite. Therefore, a) I can't verify whether the result is correct or not b) I declare this an edge case. > When I save with Thunderbird, part of what was on line 5 is now > on another line and the control-M is missing. > Nope, '.eml' extension. > That would be a bug. If you save as .eml, it should save exactly what's in your IMAP mailbox or what View as source | File | Save... saves. If it doesn't do that, it's a bug. The View Source workaround may be inconvenient, but is a workaround for such a strong edgecase, until this bug is fixed. Don't hope for it, though, because TB is working on completely different things, like a message database. You're welcome to file a bug, but please without political statements or broad generic demands. TB is geared towards comfortable writing and reading of human language text. --- Apart from that, I can only recommend that you re-consider sending patches as inline attachments (Content-Disposition: inline, which is an official Internet Standard since many years), which is IMHO correctly reflecting reality, and fixing the software which can't deal with *that*, including inline display and quoting. Ben