Re: Why not "attach" patches?

[Daniel Phillips]

On January 15, 2002 08:28 pm, Alan Cox wrote:
> > all tools will see as a normal body), I simply WILL NOT apply it unless
> > I have strong reason to. I usually wont even bother looking at it,
> > unless I expected something special from the sender.
> > 
> > Really. Don't send patches as attachments. 
> 
> BTW: If you are sending me anything DO use attachments. Especially if you
> use any of the following, which seem to have some versions that mangle 
> inline diffs
> 
> 	Lotus Notes
> 	Pine
> 	Kmail
> [...]

Kmail's patch-mangling problems seem to be all gone in kmail 2.2+.  The only 
thing to be careful about is that word wrap should be off.  Since I forgot to 
turn it off a couple of times I now leave it permanently off and turn it on 
for individual mails as needed.

--
Daniel