Missing MIME-headers in git-email-tool ..

From: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>
Date: Oct 30, 2007, 09:53 UTC
Message-ID: <20071030095338.GZ6372@mea-ext.zmailer.org>

The  git-send-email  does send posts without any sort of MIME labeling:

  From: / To: removed

  Subject: [PATCH 0/2] Blackfin I2C/TWI driver updates
  Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:33:15 +0800
  Message-Id: <1193736797-9005-1-git-send-email-bryan.wu@analog.com>
  X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.5.3.4
  Precedence: bulk

which per MIME rules means that the message in question is equivalent to one with header labels:

  MIME-Version: 1.0
  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
  Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

What would be a problem ? Some of us have names that are encoded in 8-bit form, and some receiving systems get all mighty upset when they receive unlabelled email carry 8-bit encoded texts. (Thanks to chinese and russian spammers..)

Now if the git-send-email would add following three lines in all outgoing email headers, things would be 99% correct for a long time..

  MIME-Version: 1.0
  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15
  Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT

The potential incorrectness is with UTF-8 encoded names. Even then it probably is merely nuisance and not real delivery preventing detail.

  /Matti Aarnio -- one of <postmaster @ vger.kernel.org>