From: Avery Pennarun Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:21:05 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Added --export option to git-send-email. Message-ID: <32541b130807131521w79cbf23m5934678e68312798@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7vvdz9o2wu.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> On 7/13/08, Junio C Hamano wrote: > 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