linux-kernel - Re: Query: Patches break with Microsoft exchange server.

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Date:	Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:11:57 +0100
From:	Valeo de Vries <valeo@...eo.co.cc>
To:	viresh kumar <viresh.kumar@...com>
Cc:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Query: Patches break with Microsoft exchange server.

On 11 August 2010 08:01, viresh kumar <viresh.kumar@...com> wrote:
> On 8/11/2010 3:34 AM, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 9:07 AM, viresh kumar <viresh.kumar@...com> wrote:
>>> > Mail server in ST has recently changed and now we have Microsoft
>>> > exchange server. We are using thunderbird as mail client.
>>> > What we observed with this server is that patch are broken now while
>>> > sending as well as receiving. Tabs are replaced by spaces and may
>>> > be some other too which we haven't observed.
>>> >
>>> > Has anybody found a solution to this kind of issues? Are there any
>>> > workarounds possible?
>> Same in Nokia. I wrote a script to fix exchange's crap, but I also
>> noticed some quoted-printable mails didn't get converted, so the
>> easiest would be to tell git to always send quoted-printable.
>>
>
> Hi Guys
>
> The situation has changed now.
> We are informed that SP2 is already in place in ST and mail client is not
> doing any tampering.
>
> When i send a mail using git send-email then it receives fine on
> outlook but on thunderbird, tabs are converted to spaces.
>
> This doesn't happen with every patch on thunderbird, but only a few.
> And observation is that it happens only with big patches.
> (more than 500 lines)
>
> Any idea, how to solve issue now on thunderbird??

You might be in luck:

  * Choose View – Toolbars to ensure that the formatting toolbar is visible,
  then at the left of the formatting toolbar change Body Text to Preformat.
  (lifted straight from Google)

HTH,
Valeo
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