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@@ -186,26 +186,8 @@ Sylpheed (GUI)
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Thunderbird (GUI)
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-By default, thunderbird likes to mangle text, but there are ways to
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-coerce it into being nice.
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-- Under account settings, composition and addressing, uncheck "Compose
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- messages in HTML format".
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-
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-- Edit your Thunderbird config settings to tell it not to wrap lines:
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- user_pref("mailnews.wraplength", 0);
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-
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-- Edit your Thunderbird config settings so that it won't use format=flowed:
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- user_pref("mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed", false);
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-
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-- You need to get Thunderbird into preformat mode:
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-. If you compose HTML messages by default, it's not too hard. Just select
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- "Preformat" from the drop-down box just under the subject line.
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-. If you compose in text by default, you have to tell it to compose a new
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- message in HTML (just as a one-off), and then force it from there back to
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- text, else it will wrap lines. To do this, use shift-click on the Write
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- icon to compose to get HTML compose mode, then select "Preformat" from
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- the drop-down box just under the subject line.
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+Thunderbird is an Outlook clone that likes to mangle text, but there are ways
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+to coerce it into behaving.
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- Allows use of an external editor:
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The easiest thing to do with Thunderbird and patches is to use an
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@@ -215,6 +197,27 @@ coerce it into being nice.
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View->Toolbars->Customize... and finally just click on it when in the
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Compose dialog.
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+To beat some sense out of the internal editor, do this:
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+
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+- Under account settings, composition and addressing, uncheck "Compose
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+ messages in HTML format".
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+
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+- Edit your Thunderbird config settings so that it won't use format=flowed.
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+ Go to "edit->preferences->advanced->config editor" to bring up the
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+ thunderbird's registry editor, and set "mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed" to
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+ "false".
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+
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+- Enable "preformat" mode: Shft-click on the Write icon to bring up the HTML
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+ composer, select "Preformat" from the drop-down box just under the subject
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+ line, then close the message without saving. (This setting also applies to
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+ the text composer, but the only control for it is in the HTML composer.)
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+
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+- Install the "toggle wordwrap" extension. Download the file from:
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+ https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/addon/2351/
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+ Then go to "tools->add ons", select "install" at the bottom of the screen,
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+ and browse to where you saved the .xul file. This adds an "Enable
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+ Wordwrap" entry under the Options menu of the message composer.
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TkRat (GUI)
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