HOWTO submit patches using WebMail - Help appreciated?

HOWTO submit patches using WebMail - Help appreciated?

[Daniel Laird]

All,

I am having issues getting patches to the mailing list in a format
that seems to be acceptable.
I have done all I can to the patch itself but I am having mail client
issues as well.
I have tried Gmail with plaintext.
I have also tried Lotus Notes and Nabble however they all seem to get
in the way of submitting a good patch.

Is there anyone who has used a web mail client and had success, most
details out there are for Evolution / Thunderbird users not from
people with Work based mail accounts.

Any help appreciated as I am about to re submit PNX833X patches and
would like to get it right :-)
Cheers
Dan

Re: HOWTO submit patches using WebMail - Help appreciated?

[Brian Foster]

On Thursday 17 July 2008 21:59:45 Daniel Laird wrote:
> 
> I am having issues getting patches to the mailing list in a format
> that seems to be acceptable.
> I have done all I can to the patch itself but I am having mail client
> issues as well.
> I have tried Gmail with plaintext.  [ ... ]
> 
> Is there anyone who has used a web mail client and had success, most
> details out there [ ... not for ] people with Work based mail accounts.

Dan,

  Guessing a bit, that sounds a lot like the problem I had:
 It was (and still is) impossible to use the company's SMTP
 MTA to send a patch (or even an acceptable list posting),
 even if the client (MUA) wasn't going to mess things up.

  But, if you have a Gmail account, it can be done!  In fact,
 that is what I'm doing to send this reply:  Using the MUA at
 the company, but *not* using the company's SMTP.  The secret
 is Gmail now has SMTP (and IMAP) support, as well as the POP
 support they've had for awhile.  You need to enable the SMTP
 for your Gmail account, and arrange for a non-corrupting MUA
 to use Gmail's SMTP, and (assuming your company's firewall
 et al. doesn't cause issues), things may just work.

Good luck & cheers!
	-blf-

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Re: HOWTO submit patches using WebMail - Help appreciated?

[Ralf Baechle]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 03:28:40PM +0200, Brian Foster wrote:

> On Thursday 17 July 2008 21:59:45 Daniel Laird wrote:
> > 
> > I am having issues getting patches to the mailing list in a format
> > that seems to be acceptable.
> > I have done all I can to the patch itself but I am having mail client
> > issues as well.
> > I have tried Gmail with plaintext.  [ ... ]
> > 
> > Is there anyone who has used a web mail client and had success, most
> > details out there [ ... not for ] people with Work based mail accounts.
> 
> Dan,
> 
>   Guessing a bit, that sounds a lot like the problem I had:
>  It was (and still is) impossible to use the company's SMTP
>  MTA to send a patch (or even an acceptable list posting),
>  even if the client (MUA) wasn't going to mess things up.
> 
>   But, if you have a Gmail account, it can be done!  In fact,
>  that is what I'm doing to send this reply:  Using the MUA at
>  the company, but *not* using the company's SMTP.  The secret
>  is Gmail now has SMTP (and IMAP) support, as well as the POP
>  support they've had for awhile.  You need to enable the SMTP
>  for your Gmail account, and arrange for a non-corrupting MUA
>  to use Gmail's SMTP, and (assuming your company's firewall
>  et al. doesn't cause issues), things may just work.

I'd like to remind people of the wiki page on this topic at

  http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/Mailing-patches

It's not been updated in a while and doesn't cover all clients or
possible solutions so feel free to update it.

  Ralf

Re: HOWTO submit patches using WebMail - Help appreciated?

[Martin Gebert]

> I'd like to remind people of the wiki page on this topic at
>
>   http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/Mailing-patches
>
> It's not been updated in a while and doesn't cover all clients or
> possible solutions so feel free to update it.
>   
Which brings me to a question I've been wondering for some days now: Is 
the [PATCH] prefix in the subject mandatory for a patch proposal being 
noticed by the maintainers?

Martin

Re: HOWTO submit patches using WebMail - Help appreciated?

[Ralf Baechle]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 04:47:35PM +0200, Martin Gebert wrote:

>> I'd like to remind people of the wiki page on this topic at
>>
>>   http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/Mailing-patches
>>
>> It's not been updated in a while and doesn't cover all clients or
>> possible solutions so feel free to update it.
>>   
> Which brings me to a question I've been wondering for some days now: Is  
> the [PATCH] prefix in the subject mandatory for a patch proposal being  
> noticed by the maintainers?

That's simply a question of working style and mail volume of the maintainer.

In the past I used to miss patches that were not sent to me directly at
times.  I solved that by filtering for patches using procmail.  But that
scheme also has its shortcomings; it would miss patches being sent in
too creative MIME encodings but people aren't supposed to do that anyway.

  Ralf

Re: HOWTO submit patches using WebMail - Help appreciated?

[Martin Gebert]

Hi Ralf!

> In the past I used to miss patches that were not sent to me directly at
> times.  I solved that by filtering for patches using procmail.

Thanks for this clarification. Perhaps the Mailing-patches FAQ could be 
updated with this detail?

Martin

Re: HOWTO submit patches using WebMail - Help appreciated?

[Adrian Bunk]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 03:39:13PM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 03:28:40PM +0200, Brian Foster wrote:
> 
> > On Thursday 17 July 2008 21:59:45 Daniel Laird wrote:
> > > 
> > > I am having issues getting patches to the mailing list in a format
> > > that seems to be acceptable.
> > > I have done all I can to the patch itself but I am having mail client
> > > issues as well.
> > > I have tried Gmail with plaintext.  [ ... ]
> > > 
> > > Is there anyone who has used a web mail client and had success, most
> > > details out there [ ... not for ] people with Work based mail accounts.
> > 
> > Dan,
> > 
> >   Guessing a bit, that sounds a lot like the problem I had:
> >  It was (and still is) impossible to use the company's SMTP
> >  MTA to send a patch (or even an acceptable list posting),
> >  even if the client (MUA) wasn't going to mess things up.
> > 
> >   But, if you have a Gmail account, it can be done!  In fact,
> >  that is what I'm doing to send this reply:  Using the MUA at
> >  the company, but *not* using the company's SMTP.  The secret
> >  is Gmail now has SMTP (and IMAP) support, as well as the POP
> >  support they've had for awhile.  You need to enable the SMTP
> >  for your Gmail account, and arrange for a non-corrupting MUA
> >  to use Gmail's SMTP, and (assuming your company's firewall
> >  et al. doesn't cause issues), things may just work.
> 
> I'd like to remind people of the wiki page on this topic at
> 
>   http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/Mailing-patches
> 
> It's not been updated in a while and doesn't cover all clients or
> possible solutions so feel free to update it.

What about replacing it with a link to
http://www.linux-mips.org/git?p=linux.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/email-clients.txt
?

>   Ralf

cu
Adrian

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