[PATCH] SubmittingPatches: improve documentation re: buggy mailers

[Lee Revell]

There are plenty of perfectly good mailers available that don't mangle
patches.  Warn users about buggy mailers in general and Thunderbird in
particular.

Signed-Off-By: Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx>

--- linux-2.6.15-rc5-rt2/Documentation/SubmittingPatches-orig	2005-12-26 13:01:51.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.15-rc5-rt2/Documentation/SubmittingPatches	2005-12-26 13:03:27.000000000 -0500
@@ -186,6 +186,10 @@
 For this reason, all patches should be submitting e-mail "inline".
 WARNING:  Be wary of your editor's word-wrap corrupting your patch,
 if you choose to cut-n-paste your patch.
+WARNING:  Avoid Mozilla's Thunderbird email client, unlike other 
+popular mailers it seems to be incapable of sending
+non-whitespace-damaged patches.
+
 
 Do not attach the patch as a MIME attachment, compressed or not.
 Many popular e-mail applications will not always transmit a MIME
@@ -193,8 +197,8 @@
 code.  A MIME attachment also takes Linus a bit more time to process,
 decreasing the likelihood of your MIME-attached change being accepted.
 
-Exception:  If your mailer is mangling patches then someone may ask
-you to re-send them using MIME.
+No exceptions.  If your mailer is mangling patches then you will be 
+told to get a better mailer.
 
 
 


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