Re: [PATCH/RFC] doc: about email clients for Linux kernel patches

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On Sep 11 2007 21:26, Chris Friesen wrote:
>> > Can someone describe the problems with just attaching the patch in
>> > Thunderbird?  It's what Martin says he does on the linked document...
>
>> Email clients don't like to quote attachments, even text/plain ones, which
>> then makes attached patches much more difficult to review and comment on
>> (i.e. you greatly reduce the number of reviewers).
>
> Thunderbird, at least, will automatically inline a single text/plain attachment
> when replying. (At least with my current settings, it does.)

No, the thing is: you send it attached with Thunderbird,
and my PINE strips it on reply _because_ it is an attachment.



	Jan
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