Re: [PATCH/RFC] doc: about email clients for Linux kernel patches

[Rik van Riel]

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Chris Friesen wrote:
> > Randy Dunlap wrote:
> >
> > > +Thunderbird (GUI)
> > > +
> > > +By default, thunderbird likes to mangle text, but there are ways to
> > > +coerce it into being nice.
> >
> > Can someone describe the problems with just attaching the patch in 
> > Thunderbird?  It's what Martin says he does on the linked document...
>
> Email clients don't like to quote attachments, even text/plain ones, 
> which then makes attached patches much more difficult to review and 
> comment on (i.e. you greatly reduce the number of reviewers).

Interestingly, Thunderbird does this right and simply
adds text/plain attachments to the quoted text.

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