From: Konstantin Ryabitsev Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 16:48:28 GMT Subject: Re: forcing an in-body From header Message-ID: <20220826164828.cxsveqtjiyimdj7s@meerkat.local> In-Reply-To: On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 03:17:34PM +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote: > Hi, > > Some mailing lists mangle the real From: header, making it a little hard > for maintainers to apply patches directly using 'git am'. See e.g. > https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-core/message/166515 . One > way to work around that is by having an in-body From: "header". This is only tangentially related to the problem at hand, but the list in question is also mirrored on lore.kernel.org: https://lore.kernel.org/openembedded-core/20220531151052.3667079-1-sean.anderson@seco.com/ The mirroring is done with a direct push hook from groups.io, which is why we get messages without all the groups.io mangling. > However, merely setting sendemail.from or format.from is not enough to > get such a header, if the value happens to be identical to the patch > author (which it would usually be). So, could we get some config knob > and/or command line switch to force an in-body from header? Then one > could set that on a per-project basis, for projects with such mailing lists. I agree that it's a nice feature to have, though I would put this into the sendemail config instead of using an env variable, something like: [sendemail] in-body-headers = From -K