Re: [PATCH v4 0/9] CXL: Process event logs

Ira Weiny
2022-12-12T18:48:11Z

On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 11:16:13AM -0500, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 09:32:33PM -0800, Ira Weiny wrote:
> > My apologies. Please ignore this series.
> >
> > I'm trying to use the new b4 send functionality and was trying to send this
> > only to myself. I'm not sure what went wrong. The patches should be ok but
> > this did not get sent to all the intended lists and people.
> >
> > I'm going to resend this hopefully to all the right addresses this time.
>
> Ira:

First off thanks for the quick response and I have to say b4 send looks like an
awesome tool. So I hope the above was not taken the wrong way.

>
> I don't think anything went wrong -- you probably used the new "reflect"
> feature, right?

I did! :-D

> It fills out the To: and Cc: headers but doesn't actually send
> actual mail to those accounts. Mail servers don't actually pay any attention
> to those headers -- all that matters is what destinations are given to the
> server during the envelope negotiation.

I did not know that. But I was kind of coming to that conclusion based on
what I saw happen.

>
> I do realize that this is confusing. :/

Only to those mere mortals such as myself who don't know squat about mail
protocols! :-D

>
> Should I include anything in the output about this?

Maybe. I'm not trying to put more burden on you. But for the ignorant maybe
it is a good idea. I did panic when I saw all the to/cc addresses filled in.

FWIW I do like the idea of seeing the headers as they appear. My personal
scripts have features to dump emails before trying to send. So now that I know
what happened I kind of like it.

Thanks,
Ira