Recently, I have tried outlook
and web gmail
to send patches to OpenBSD
, but neither of them is an ideal choice. For example, the original patch is:
Index: dmesg.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/sbin/dmesg/dmesg.c,v
retrieving revision 1.29
diff -u -p -r1.29 dmesg.c
--- dmesg.c 1 Sep 2017 07:31:45 -0000 1.29
+++ dmesg.c 4 Sep 2017 08:55:50 -0000
@@ -65,12 +65,12 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
int ch, newl, skip, i;
char *p;
struct msgbuf cur;
- char *memf, *nlistf, *bufdata = NULL;
+ char *memf = NULL, *nlistf = NULL, *bufdata = NULL;
char *allocated = NULL;
int startupmsgs = 0;
char buf[5];
- memf = nlistf = NULL;
+ memset(&cur, 0, sizeof(cur));
while ((ch = getopt(argc, argv, "sM:N:")) != -1)
switch(ch) {
case 's':
The actual effect of sending patch using above tools:
Index: dmesg.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/sbin/dmesg/dmesg.c,v
retrieving revision 1.29
diff -u -p -r1.29 dmesg.c
--- dmesg.c 1 Sep 2017 07:31:45 -0000 1.29
+++ dmesg.c 4 Sep 2017 08:55:50 -0000
@@ -65,12 +65,12 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
int ch, newl, skip, i;
char *p;
struct msgbuf cur;
- char *memf, *nlistf, *bufdata = NULL;
+ char *memf = NULL, *nlistf = NULL, *bufdata = NULL;
char *allocated = NULL;
int startupmsgs = 0;
char buf[5];
- memf = nlistf = NULL;
+ memset(&cur, 0, sizeof(cur));
while ((ch = getopt(argc, argv, "sM:N:")) != -1)
switch(ch) {
case 's':
We can see the spaces in the left part of code are lost. After referring Completely plain email and Thunderbird (GUI), I decide to useThunderbird
as the email client, but need further customization:
(1) All sent mails are plain text: “Account Settings
” -> “Composition & Addressing
“, untick “Compose message in HTML format
“:
Or before sending mail: “Options
” -> “Delivery Format
” -> “Plain Text Only
“.
(2) “Tools
” -> “Options
” -> “Advanced
” -> “Config Editor...
“:
Set mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed
to false
:
Now the patch format is correct.