From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Stephen R. van den Berg" Subject: Re: RFC822 From: fields Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:45:18 +0200 Message-ID: <20080426114518.GA19558@cuci.nl> References: <20080425235142.GA6347@cuci.nl> <87r6ctatma.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Apr 26 13:46:11 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jpir4-00022N-1S for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:46:10 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752986AbYDZLpW (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2008 07:45:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752958AbYDZLpV (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2008 07:45:21 -0400 Received: from aristoteles.cuci.nl ([212.125.128.18]:46705 "EHLO aristoteles.cuci.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752814AbYDZLpT (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2008 07:45:19 -0400 Received: by aristoteles.cuci.nl (Postfix, from userid 500) id 3D1A1545E; Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:45:18 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87r6ctatma.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Florian Weimer wrote: >* Stephen R. van den Berg: >> I noticed that the From: field generated by git-format-patch does not >> conform to RFC822 format when the realname contains a dot (like mine). >This was fixed in RFC 2822, and the fix has already been deployed widely >(even before the advent of RFC 2822). I don't think there's any need to >change GIT. True indeed. Ironically, the vger.kernel.org mailserver adheres to RFC822 and ignores RFC2822 at the moment, which means that generating patches from git, for the git mailinglist doesn't work without intervention. I already contacted the vger-mailserver admin about this. -- Sincerely, srb@cuci.nl Stephen R. van den Berg.