Re: Help with vger's rules, was Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.10.2

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Nov 3, 2016, 15:38 UTC
Message-ID: <20161103153845.nhquuoko4utecit2@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20161103153453.4aipi5lxkmkt3kco@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 11:34:53AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

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> This is missing a Content-Transfer-Encoding. I think the default is the
> traditional 7-bit ascii encoding, but your body has characters with the
> high-bit set (your UTF-8 bullet).
> 
> Try adding:
> 
>   Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> 
> I haven't seen this before, but I do recall that vger's MTA is very
> picky about this and wants to rewrite transfer-encodings, so it seems
> plausible.

Technically, I think you'd also need a:

  MIME-Version: 1.0

header. That being said, I just peeked at the send-email code and it looks like we try to add in these headers as necessary. It's possible there's a bug, though. What does "git send-email --dry-run" say is in the headers it sends out?

-Peff