Re: [virtio-comment] trouble sending patch with git send-email

[Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>]

On Mon, May 15 2023, "T.J. Alumbaugh" <talumbau@google.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm having an issue trying to send a proposed spec change for
> discussion to this list. I'm following the instructions here:
>
> https://github.com/oasis-tcs/virtio-spec#providing-feedback
>
> which seem to be pretty standard and the typical workflow for sending
> git patches. However, my messages bounce with this error:
>
> <virtio-comment@lists.oasis-open.org>: permission denied. Command output:
>     Traceback (most recent call last):   File
>     "/home/oasis/bin/kmlm_crosspost_issubn", line 14, in <module>     import
>     MySQLdb ImportError: No module named MySQLdb Sorry, only subscribers may
>     post. If you are a subscriber, please forward this message to
>     virtio-comment-owner@lists.oasis-open.org to get your new address included
>     (#5.7.2) ERROR: postqmail-local Error #77
>
>
> I have confirmed that I am a subscriber to this list. This email
> itself will serve as an experiment to determine if the message is
> legitimate (the system believes I am not a subscriber), or if this
> error is spurious and there is some other issue with sending a patch
> with `git send-email`. In the event that this email does get through,
> any advice on how to proceed would be much appreciated! Thanks,
>
> -T.J.

Just to make sure it's not something obvious: Have you double checked
that the author in git matches the address you subscribed with? Because
this mail came through, and having the author set to a different address
without realizing it is something that happens a lot.


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