From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: Missing MIME-headers in git-email-tool .. Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:31:41 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: References: <20071030095338.GZ6372@mea-ext.zmailer.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Matti Aarnio X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Oct 30 11:32:35 2007 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 1ImoOg-00048z-4H for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:32:34 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752247AbXJ3KcW (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Oct 2007 06:32:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752220AbXJ3KcW (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Oct 2007 06:32:22 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:42641 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752096AbXJ3KcV (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Oct 2007 06:32:21 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 30 Oct 2007 10:32:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO [138.251.11.74]) [138.251.11.74] by mail.gmx.net (mp003) with SMTP; 30 Oct 2007 11:32:19 +0100 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+JTAAp7meJIDM6GuVXrjIr2O+neVm5p3WA4451GZ g+JrRYYdrRoz+t X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: <20071030095338.GZ6372@mea-ext.zmailer.org> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Matti Aarnio wrote: > 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 AFAICT MIME headers are only added when needed. (But that might only apply to format-patch; however, if you signed off with your name, all should be well.) > 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 No. Not at all. ISO-8859-15 is just as wrong as ASCII. You just forget about the majority of the population on this earth. That is just as arrogant and snobbish as the people who thought that ASCII would be good enough for everyone. Ciao, Dscho