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Documentation: update thunderbird email client settings
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Added setting to email-clients that is easier to read and is easier to
setup thunderbird.  Removed config settings and added GUI settings.

Signed-off-by: Paul McQuade <paulmcquad@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Paul McQuade authored and Linus Torvalds committed May 25, 2014
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Expand Up @@ -201,20 +201,15 @@ To beat some sense out of the internal editor, do this:

- Edit your Thunderbird config settings so that it won't use format=flowed.
Go to "edit->preferences->advanced->config editor" to bring up the
thunderbird's registry editor, and set "mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed" to
"false".
thunderbird's registry editor.

- Disable HTML Format: Set "mail.identity.id1.compose_html" to "false".
- Set "mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed" to "false"

- Enable "preformat" mode: Set "editor.quotesPreformatted" to "true".
- Set "mailnews.wraplength" from "72" to "0"

- Enable UTF8: Set "prefs.converted-to-utf8" to "true".
- "View" > "Message Body As" > "Plain Text"

- Install the "toggle wordwrap" extension. Download the file from:
https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/addon/2351/
Then go to "tools->add ons", select "install" at the bottom of the screen,
and browse to where you saved the .xul file. This adds an "Enable
Wordwrap" entry under the Options menu of the message composer.
- "View" > "Character Encoding" > "Unicode (UTF-8)"

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