From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com (mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com [148.163.158.5]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 40mYvl5x2czF14x for ; Thu, 17 May 2018 11:42:27 +1000 (AEST) Received: from pps.filterd (m0098414.ppops.net [127.0.0.1]) by mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com (8.16.0.22/8.16.0.22) with SMTP id w4H1cxLP119483 for ; Wed, 16 May 2018 21:42:25 -0400 Received: from e06smtp13.uk.ibm.com (e06smtp13.uk.ibm.com [195.75.94.109]) by mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com with ESMTP id 2j0y5hab0b-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Wed, 16 May 2018 21:42:24 -0400 Received: from localhost by e06smtp13.uk.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Thu, 17 May 2018 02:42:23 +0100 Subject: Re: administrivia: mails containing HTML attachments To: Stephen Rothwell , ppc-dev References: <20180516144829.2dbefb0b@canb.auug.org.au> From: Andrew Donnellan Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 11:42:18 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180516144829.2dbefb0b@canb.auug.org.au> Message-Id: <79d78539-19b0-0647-e823-fe0ba8d1c839@au1.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On 16/05/18 14:48, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > Hi all, > > I have decided that any email sent to the linuxppc-dev mailing list > that contains an HTML attachment (or is just an HTML email) will be > rejected. The vast majority of such mail are spam (and I have to spend > time dropping them manually at the moment) and, I presume, anyone on > this list is capable of sending no HTML email. > > Feel free to discuss ;-) As it turns out, there's some bugs in how Patchwork handles HTML emails that can screw up the resulting patch mboxes when retrieved from Patchwork. We're hoping to fix that in the next Patchwork release, but in the meantime this restriction should stop us running into any issues on this list. -- Andrew Donnellan OzLabs, ADL Canberra andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com IBM Australia Limited