From: Andrew Donnellan Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 23:01:23 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] parser: Unmangle From: headers that have been mangled for DMARC purposes 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: > 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. > > 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. -- Andrew Donnellan OzLabs, ADL Canberra ajd@linux.ibm.com IBM Australia Limited