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doc: email-clients miscellaneous fixes

Fixed some style inconsistencies and remove old statement referring to
kmail missing feature (saving email from the view window is possible).

Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

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Documentation/process/email-clients.rst
··· 40 40 If you configure your email client to send emails with UTF-8 encoding, 41 41 you avoid some possible charset problems. 42 42 43 - Email clients should generate and maintain References: or In-Reply-To: 43 + Email clients should generate and maintain "References:" or "In-Reply-To:" 44 44 headers so that mail threading is not broken. 45 45 46 46 Copy-and-paste (or cut-and-paste) usually does not work for patches ··· 89 89 90 90 Works. Some people use this successfully for patches. 91 91 92 - To insert a patch use :menuselection:`Message-->Insert` File (:kbd:`CTRL-I`) 92 + To insert a patch use :menuselection:`Message-->Insert File` (:kbd:`CTRL-I`) 93 93 or an external editor. 94 94 95 95 If the inserted patch has to be edited in the Claws composition window ··· 132 132 At the bottom of your email, put the commonly-used patch delimiter before 133 133 inserting your patch: three hyphens (``---``). 134 134 135 - Then from the :menuselection:`Message` menu item, select insert file and 136 - choose your patch. 135 + Then from the :menuselection:`Message` menu item, select 136 + :menuselection:`insert file` and choose your patch. 137 137 As an added bonus you can customise the message creation toolbar menu 138 138 and put the :menuselection:`insert file` icon there. 139 139 ··· 149 149 as inlined text will make them tricky to extract from their 7-bit encoding. 150 150 151 151 If you absolutely must send patches as attachments instead of inlining 152 - them as text, right click on the attachment and select properties, and 153 - highlight :menuselection:`Suggest automatic display` to make the attachment 152 + them as text, right click on the attachment and select :menuselection:`properties`, 153 + and highlight :menuselection:`Suggest automatic display` to make the attachment 154 154 inlined to make it more viewable. 155 155 156 156 When saving patches that are sent as inlined text, select the email that 157 157 contains the patch from the message list pane, right click and select 158 158 :menuselection:`save as`. You can use the whole email unmodified as a patch 159 - if it was properly composed. There is no option currently to save the email 160 - when you are actually viewing it in its own window -- there has been a request 161 - filed at kmail's bugzilla and hopefully this will be addressed. Emails are 162 - saved as read-write for user only so you will have to chmod them to make them 163 - group and world readable if you copy them elsewhere. 159 + if it was properly composed. Emails are saved as read-write for user only so 160 + you will have to chmod them to make them group and world readable if you copy 161 + them elsewhere. 164 162 165 163 Lotus Notes (GUI) 166 164 *****************