Re: [PATCH] parser: Unmangle From: headers that have been mangled for DMARC purposes

From: Andrew Donnellan <ajd@linux.ibm.com>
Date: Oct 10, 2019, 23:01 UTC
Message-ID: <06541640-7eca-bc40-5c4b-9aa682d774a8@linux.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: <20191010225405.GA19475@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On 11/10/19 9:54 am, Jeff King wrote:

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> Neat. There was discussion on a similar issue recently in:
> 
>    https://public-inbox.org/git/305577c2-709a-b632-4056-6582771176ac@redhat.com/
> 
> where a possible solution was to get senders to use in-body From
> headers even when sending their own patches.

I think that's a good idea.

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> This might provide an alternate solution (or vice versa). I kind of like
> this one better in that it doesn't require the sender to do anything
> differently (but it may be less robust, as it assumes the receiver
> reliably de-mangling).

Yep, it's less robust - but OTOH there's always a long tail of users stuck on old versions of git for whatever reason and having some logic to detect DMARC munging may thus still be useful.

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Andrew Donnellan              OzLabs, ADL Canberra
ajd@linux.ibm.com             IBM Australia Limited