Re: Early boot panic on machine with lots of memory

[Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>]

Hello, Yinghai.

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 01:01:32PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> using yhlu.kernel@gmail.com to get mail from the list and respond as
> yinghai@kernel.org.
> 
> gmail web client does not allow us to insert plain text.
> 
> if using standline thunderbird, that seems can not handle thousand mail.

I moved away from TB too (to gmail + mutt) but IIRC turning off
indexing made it mostly bearable for me.

> noticed now even Linus is attaching patch, so I assume that is ok
> because there is no othe good rway.

Yeah, it's okay but just not optimal.  I was wondering what changed.
My setup is pretty similar and in case you're intersted, here are some
tricks I've been using.

Thunderbird

 * In the Composition & Addressing tab of account setting, clear
   "Compose messages in HTML format".

 * Open Config Editor under Preferences -> Advanced -> General.
   * set mailnews.wraplength to 9999
   * set mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed to false

 * Install External Editor add-on and configure it to your favorite
   editor.

   http://globs.org/articles.php?pg=2&lng=en

   Ctrl-E launches the external editor.  The only caveat is that there
   seems to be a race condition and if the machine is under heavy load
   the extension occassinally loses the edited text, so it usually is a
   good idea to save a copy in a separate file before exiting the
   external editor.  It never happens on my desktop but happens on my
   laptop once in a blue moon.

Alternatively, you can use mutt for patch sending / processing.  With
caches turned on (set header_cache, set message_cachedir), it's
actually pretty useable w/ gmail.

-- 
tejun