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As you may have noticed, I've been trying to post some patches, but sending most of them failed due to line wrapping problems. This is a problem with the mailer we use here (outlook). Messing with the mailer didn't help, and so was posting via the Nabble forum or my gmail account in text mode.

I'd appreciate any suggestion from you, as this pretty much holds me back.

You want to install 'git send-email':

< http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

Thanks Grant, but this doesn't seem to work with our exchange server. Our company also blocks the access to external SMTP servers (like gmail). Is there a way to include some sort of attachment via mail, or via a forum, so it can be seen as a text message in the list? Regards, David.

Option 1:

I've been playing with sending patches using Outlook. "Properly formatted" patches can be done by changing to a monospace font. This can be done either before or after pasting in the patch:

Before pasting in the patch, you can change the format using a monospace font and honor the line breaks by selecting the menu option "Format / Style / Formatted" and then pasting the patch into that section.

If you forget or misfire on pre-selecting the font, after pasting in the patch, you can highlighting the patch and select the menu option "Format / Style / Formatted".

Option 2:

It is possible that your Exchange server supports port 25 (depends how what your IT staff configured it). If this is the case, git-send-email will work directly with your Exchange server.

You need to figure out the Exchange server and your user name (including the AD domain).

To figure out your Exchange server:

1. In Outlook, select the menu selection Tools/Email Accounts.. which

brings up a dialog allowing you to "View or change existing e-mail accounts" 2) Click the "Next" button which brings up the next dialog box. 3) Select the "Microsoft Exchange Server" account and click the "Change" button. 4) This dialog box shows your Exchange server name.

From the command line, run telnet <exchsvr> 25 and, if you get a prompt, you have port 25 support enabled (good!).

Note that you can use the above information to configure Thunderbird to use Exchange via IMAP (IMAP or port 25 for sending) as well. Thunderbird isn't (much? any?) better than Outlook for sending patches as far as I can tell. The built in editor line wraps unless you do the HTML/preformatted trick the same way as Outlook requires (gag). The linux kernel hints talk about using an external editor with Tbird, but I don't see that as an option under Windows.

Best regards, gvb

Thanks Jerry. Option 1 did the trick. My mistake was sending the patches using plain text instead of rich text as you had suggested. Gonna repost the patches now - hopefully for the last time. Regards, David.