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Documentation: email-clients: Add better Thunderbird information
Add better Thunderbird information.
Add Thunderbird Registry instructions to:
Enable UTF8 & Preformat mode
Disable HTML mode
Signed-off-by: Paul McQuade <paulmcquad@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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To beat some sense out of the internal editor, do this:
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- Under account settings, composition and addressing, uncheck "Compose
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messages in HTML format".
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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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- 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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- Disable HTML Format: Set "mail.identity.id1.compose_html" to "false".
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- Enable "preformat" mode: Set "editor.quotesPreformatted" to "true".
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- Enable UTF8: Set "prefs.converted-to-utf8" to "true".
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- Install the "toggle wordwrap" extension. Download the file from:
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https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/addon/2351/