From: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 02:09:31 GMT
Subject: Re: Bug: format-patch MIME boundary not added to cover letter when attach enabled
Message-ID: <20180430020930.GA13217@genre.crustytoothpaste.net>
In-Reply-To: <5e409069-835f-3c85-f55e-c27f534dc9e2@stormcloud9.net>

On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 09:40:13PM -0400, Patrick Hemmer wrote:
> When you use `git format-patch --cover-letter --attach`, the cover
> letter does not have the trailing MIME boundary. RFC2046 states that the
> last part must be followed by a closing boundary. This causes some email
> clients (Thunderbird in my case) to discard the message body.
> This is experienced with git 2.16.3.

Thanks for reporting this.  I can confirm this with a reasonably recent
next.  Let me see if I can come up with a patch.
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