Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6

[safe/jmp/linux-2.6] / Documentation / email-clients.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/email-clients.txt b/Documentation/email-clients.txt
index 2ebb94d..945ff3f 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/email-clients.txt
+++ b/Documentation/email-clients.txt
@@ -213,4 +213,17 @@ TkRat (GUI)
 
 Works.  Use "Insert file..." or external editor.
 
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+Gmail (Web GUI)
+
+Does not work for sending patches.
+
+Gmail web client converts tabs to spaces automatically.
+
+At the same time it wraps lines every 78 chars with CRLF style line breaks
+although tab2space problem can be solved with external editor.
+
+Another problem is that Gmail will base64-encode any message that has a
+non-ASCII character. That includes things like European names.
+
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