Re: [PATCH] IA64,sparc: local DoS with corrupted ELFs

[Randy.Dunlap]

On Fri, 08 Sep 2006 20:09:22 +0400 Kirill Korotaev wrote:

> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Kirill Korotaev wrote:
> > 
> >>I even checked the email myself and the only difference between "good"
> >>patches and mine is that mine has "format=flowed" in
> >>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
> >>
> >>It looks like some mailers replace TABs with spaces when format=flowed
> >>is specified. So are you sure that the problem is in mozilla?
> > 
> > 
> > Hey, what do you know? Good call. I can actually just "S"ave the message 
> > to a file, and it is a perfectly fine patch. But when I view it in my mail 
> > reader, your "format=flowed" means that it _shows_ it as being corrupted 
> > (ie word wrapping and missing spaces at the beginning of lines).
> Oh, I finally found how to tune Mozilla and fix it:
> 
> One need to edit defaults/pref/mailnews.js file to have:
> pref("mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed", false); // RFC 2646=======
> pref("mailnews.display.disable_format_flowed_support", true);
> 
> This makes Mozilla to send emails w/o "format=flowed".
> 
> Thanks a lot for your patience :)

Here is some (similar) info for thunderbird:
  http://mbligh.org/linuxdocs/Email/Clients/Thunderbird

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~Randy
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