docs: process: email-client: add Thunderbird "Toggle Line Wrap" extension

While reading the git-format-patch manpages [1], I discovered the existence
of the "Toggle Line Wrap" extension for Thunderbird which I found rather
convenient.

Looking at the history, the ancestor of this extension was added to the
documentation in commit e0e34e977a ("Documentation/email-clients.txt:
update Thunderbird docs with wordwrap plugin") but then removed in commit
f9a0974d3f ("Documentation: update thunderbird email client settings").

Extend the paragraph on Thunderbird's mailnews.wraplength register to
mention the existence of the "Toggle Line Wrap" extension. The goal is not
to create a war on what is the best option so make it clear that this is
just an alternative.

[1] man git-format-patch -- §Thunderbird
Link: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch#_thunderbird

Signed-off-by: Vincent Mailhol <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Gal Pressman <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Sotir Danailov <[email protected]>  # As past commit author
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <20251226-docs_thunderbird-toggle-line-wrap-v2-1-aebb8c60025d@kernel.org>
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@@ -324,7 +324,14 @@ To beat some sense out of the internal editor, do this:
- Set ``mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed`` to ``false``
- Set ``mailnews.wraplength`` from ``72`` to ``0``
- Set ``mailnews.wraplength`` from ``72`` to ``0`` **or** install the
"Toggle Line Wrap" extension
https://github.com/jan-kiszka/togglelinewrap
https://addons.thunderbird.net/thunderbird/addon/toggle-line-wrap
to control this registry on the fly.
- Don't write HTML messages! Go to the main window
:menuselection:`Main Menu-->Account Settings-->[email protected]>Composition & Addressing`!