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From: Luis Henriques <henrix@camandro.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] send-email: add --[no-]xmailer option
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 19:44:55 +0000
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Cc: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>, git@vger.kernel.org,
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On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 11:33:24AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Luis Henriques <henrix@camandro.org> writes:
>=20
> > On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 08:56:45AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >
> >> I actually do not think this is a good idea from debuggability.
> >
> > Do you think this could be merged with yet another switch?  I can't
> > think of a name for the switch, something like... "--hide-msgid"?
>=20
> In case it wasn't clear, by "this" I meant the removal of
> "X-Mailer:", iow, "Adding --no-xmailer option is a bad idea from
> debuggability's point of view".
>

Oh, ok.  I thought you were talking about the message-id.

> Not adding message-id is not an option; MSAs are supposed to always
> add one if they want to be RFC compliant, aren't they?

Yes, of course -- having a message ID is a requirement.  But I was
hoping you could accept a solution similar to the one suggested by
Kyle (adding him to Cc): he was suggesting hashing the message ID,
which would be a good compromise, I believe.

Cheers,
--=20
Lu=EDs