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From: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Missing MIME-headers in git-email-tool ..
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:53:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071030095338.GZ6372@mea-ext.zmailer.org> (raw)


The  git-send-email  does send posts without any sort of MIME labeling:

  From: / To: removed

  Subject: [PATCH 0/2] Blackfin I2C/TWI driver updates
  Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:33:15 +0800
  Message-Id: <1193736797-9005-1-git-send-email-bryan.wu@analog.com>
  X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.5.3.4
  Precedence: bulk


which per MIME rules means that the message in question is equivalent
to one with header labels:

  MIME-Version: 1.0
  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
  Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

What would be a problem ?   Some of us have names that are encoded
in 8-bit form,  and some receiving systems get all mighty upset when
they receive unlabelled email carry 8-bit encoded texts.
(Thanks to chinese and russian spammers..)


Now if the  git-send-email would add following three lines in all
outgoing email headers, things would be 99% correct for a long time..

  MIME-Version: 1.0
  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15
  Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT

The potential incorrectness is with UTF-8 encoded names.
Even then it probably is merely nuisance and not real delivery
preventing detail.

  /Matti Aarnio -- one of <postmaster @ vger.kernel.org>

             reply	other threads:[~2007-10-30  9:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-30  9:53 Matti Aarnio [this message]
2007-10-30 10:31 ` Missing MIME-headers in git-email-tool Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-30 11:27   ` Matti Aarnio
2007-10-30 12:07     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-30 14:06 ` Jeff King
2007-10-30 14:09   ` Jeff King

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