Re: RFC re Thunderbird + imap-send

From: Jeremy White <jwhite@codeweavers.com>
Date: Feb 10, 2009, 13:23 UTC
Message-ID: <49917FC4.3000807@codeweavers.com>
In-Reply-To: <49917208.6000807@beonex.com>

Ben Bucksch wrote:

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> On 10.02.2009 12:06, Michael J Gruber wrote:
>> For a typical text mail in Drafts I see lines like
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>> Any chance we could use that rather than invoke the HTML editor?
>> We would need to shut off q-p and f-f *and* avoid automatic word wrap
>> (or make sure patches don't have longer lines then TBs editor allows),
>> the latter I don't know how to do.
>>    
> I'm not aware that existing headers would influence the send logic (in 
> turning on/off qp or f=f or word wrap).

I both looked at the Thunderbird code and experimented with a variety of options and found no way to do this; only the charset seems to be picked up (and that may actually be a bug, judging by Ben's initial reaction :-/).

Cheers,

Jeremy