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Re: [RFC/PATCH] mailinfo: do not treat ">From" lines as in-body headers

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Sep 14, 2014, 00:47 UTC
Message-ID
<20140914004725.GA28010@peff.net>
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<20140913225713.GB189120@vauxhall.crustytoothpaste.net>
On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 10:57:14PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
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> On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 05:25:05PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> > Thanks both of you for following up. I did confirm that git-send-email
> > does not add such quoting. From your findings above, I'd agree that it's
> > the list-archive software munging it, and they are buggy IMHO (they
> > should de-quote on display).
> 
> I wonder if git send-email should do what mutt does in this case, which
> is use quoted-printable encoding and encode the first F as =46 (as well
> as any equals signs as =3D).  It looks like mailinfo.c already is
> capable of handling that, and that would avoid the entire issue.

That's not an unreasonable tactic. However, I think we'd still want to do something with mailinfo on the receiving end, similar to the patch I sent. We don't know that the sending side is necessarily send-email.

-Peff
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  1. Dan CarpenterSep 13, 2014
  2. Greg KHSep 13, 2014
  3. Dan CarpenterSep 13, 2014
  4. Jeff KingSep 13, 2014
  5. Mark EinonSep 13, 2014
  6. Dan CarpenterSep 13, 2014
  7. Mark EinonSep 13, 2014
  8. Dan CarpenterSep 13, 2014
  9. mailinfo: do not treat ">From" lines as in-body headersJeff King, Sep 13, 2014
  10. brian m. carlsonSep 13, 2014
  11. Jeff KingSep 14, 2014
  12. Junio C HamanoSep 14, 2014
  13. Jeff KingSep 14, 2014
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