From 5d3687d7fb861da4640e54b25c0746a159f415a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lasse Collin Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:00:28 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/email-clients.txt: warn about word wrap bug in KMail Signed-off-by: Lasse Collin Cc: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/email-clients.txt | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/email-clients.txt b/Documentation/email-clients.txt index 945ff3fda433..fb12c2248747 100644 --- a/Documentation/email-clients.txt +++ b/Documentation/email-clients.txt @@ -104,6 +104,13 @@ Then from the "Message" menu item, select insert file and choose your patch. As an added bonus you can customise the message creation toolbar menu and put the "insert file" icon there. +Make the the composer window wide enough so that no lines wrap. As of +KMail 1.13.5 (KDE 4.5.4), KMail will apply word wrapping when sending +the email if the lines wrap in the composer window. Having word wrapping +disabled in the Options menu isn't enough. Thus, if your patch has very +long lines, you must make the composer window very wide before sending +the email. See: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174034 + You can safely GPG sign attachments, but inlined text is preferred for patches so do not GPG sign them. Signing patches that have been inserted as inlined text will make them tricky to extract from their 7-bit encoding. -- 2.34.1