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Documentation/email-clients.txt: update Thunderbird docs with wordwrap plugin 

Show how to install the "toggle wordwrap" extension in thunderbird.

Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rlandley@parallels.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Rob Landley 2011-01-12 17:00:29 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
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Thunderbird (GUI)
By default, thunderbird likes to mangle text, but there are ways to
coerce it into being nice.
- Under account settings, composition and addressing, uncheck "Compose
messages in HTML format".
- Edit your Thunderbird config settings to tell it not to wrap lines:
user_pref("mailnews.wraplength", 0);
- Edit your Thunderbird config settings so that it won't use format=flowed:
user_pref("mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed", false);
- You need to get Thunderbird into preformat mode:
. If you compose HTML messages by default, it's not too hard. Just select
"Preformat" from the drop-down box just under the subject line.
. If you compose in text by default, you have to tell it to compose a new
message in HTML (just as a one-off), and then force it from there back to
text, else it will wrap lines. To do this, use shift-click on the Write
icon to compose to get HTML compose mode, then select "Preformat" from
the drop-down box just under the subject line.
Thunderbird is an Outlook clone that likes to mangle text, but there are ways
to coerce it into behaving.
- Allows use of an external editor:
The easiest thing to do with Thunderbird and patches is to use an
@ -215,6 +197,27 @@ coerce it into being nice.
View->Toolbars->Customize... and finally just click on it when in the
Compose dialog.
To beat some sense out of the internal editor, do this:
- Under account settings, composition and addressing, uncheck "Compose
messages in HTML format".
- 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".
- Enable "preformat" mode: Shft-click on the Write icon to bring up the HTML
composer, select "Preformat" from the drop-down box just under the subject
line, then close the message without saving. (This setting also applies to
the text composer, but the only control for it is in the HTML composer.)
- 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.
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TkRat (GUI)