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Re: [PATCH] Added --export option to git-send-email.

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Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 13, 2008, 22:21 UTC
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On 7/13/08, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Heh, so by that definition Gnus is not modern enough; neither is webmail
> interface at gmail.
>
>  From which has originally zero level of >
>  >From which has one
>  >>From which has two
>  >>>From which has three
>
>  I am reasonably sure the above will be sent with one, one, two and three
>  gt before "From".  Is your mailer modern enough?

I read this message at gmail, and got zero, one, two, and three dashes, respectively. For the sake of interest, I then connected to gmail using IMAP from mutt, and the message was still intact. Then I saved it to an mbox file using mutt, and it used Content-Length instead of From munging, so it wasn't a very good experiment :)

If you're not actually delivering your mail using mbox format (as opposed to imap, webmail, etc), it would be quite insulting for "From " to be munged at all, so I'm happy at least that I didn't experience that in my tests. On the other hand I'm surprised that gmail should have corrupted it for you; gmail should be able to completely forget about the concept of "From " munging since they don't use mbox internally. (And it's the MDA's job to munge it, not the MTA, so the lines should never be munged while in transit *to* gmail unless the mailer app is extremely buggy.)

Have fun,
Avery
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Message 9 of 15 in “Added --export option to git-send-email.”
  1. Added --export option to git-send-email.Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu, Jul 10, 2008
  2. Junio C HamanoJul 11, 2008
  3. Eduard - Gabriel MunteanuJul 11, 2008
  4. Junio C HamanoJul 13, 2008
  5. Avery PennarunJul 13, 2008
  6. Junio C HamanoJul 13, 2008
  7. Avery PennarunJul 13, 2008
  8. Junio C HamanoJul 13, 2008
  9. Avery PennarunJul 13, 2008
  10. Junio C HamanoJul 13, 2008
  11. Avery PennarunJul 13, 2008
  12. Eduard - Gabriel MunteanuJul 13, 2008
  13. Junio C HamanoJul 14, 2008
  14. Avery PennarunJul 14, 2008
  15. Eduard - Gabriel MunteanuJul 14, 2008

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