Re: Newline disappears (not sure if Gnus or Emacs fault)

[Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>]

Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@riseup.net> writes:

Hi Sergio,

> The problem: Gnus (or Emacs) is eating some newline characters in
> messages.  This happens particularly often with hyperlinks, but
> yesterday it happened inside an inlined patch in a message.

I'd rather say it's the fault of the email client of the mail's sender
which probably uses "format=flowed".  Have a look at 

,----[ git-format-patch(1) ]
| 	By default, Thunderbird will both wrap emails as well as
| 	flag them as being format=flowed, both of which will make
| 	the resulting email unusable by git.
`----

The same applies not just to Thunderbird, but probably to most graphical
mail clients in use today.  So either the sender should disable that
somehow, or attach patches as attachment instead of inline.

Bye,
Tassilo