Re: LKML admins (syzbot emails are not delivered)

[Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 09:31:26AM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 8:12 AM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> > I just checked a recent report from the Syzbot, and it's not fixed.
> > The raw.log file still uses a Content-Type of
> > Application/Octet-stream.  Worse the reproducer C source file has a
> > content type of Application/Octet-stream instead of the much more sane
> > Application/text.  <Face palm>
> 
> 
> I will look into using a different mailing system which allows more
> control over email contents.
> A quick fix for raw.log will be to rename it to raw.log.txt. Not sure
> if text/plain repro.c.txt is better than application/octet-stream
> repro.c...

My personal opinion is that if there is no way to force the content
type except by using magic extensions --- which is super-surprising to
me; that seems like a broken API and a feature request bug should be
filed against the relevant API --- using repro.c.txt would be the best
of bad alternatives.  Someone is going to have to exit to a shell to
compile the repro, and renaming the filename isn't a big deal.  The
Mail User Agent I use (mutt) allows me to specify the directory to
save the file, and gives me the opportunity to edit the filename,
before I save it.  So at least for me, it really isn't a big deal for
you to use repro.c.txt.

Cheers,

					- Ted