Re: Feature request - Subtree checkouts

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Apr 10, 2007, 20:28 UTC
Message-ID: <7vslb8ug7y.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070410132011.GH5436@spearce.org>

"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

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> "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> P.S. Does this list do some weird spam-blocking? I've tried 3 times now
>> to use git-send-email to send an unrelated minor patch set
>> (--subject-prefix for git-format-patch), and it has never shown up on
>> the list :-(.
>
> Yes.  It has cut down on our spam, but it has also caused some
> things to be blocked, almost without good reason.  ;-)
>
> I send a fair number of patches to this list (at times anyway) and
> am also unable to use git-send-email.  If I have the email also CC
> back to me it does make it through a number of SMTP server hops,
> including my own spam filters, but it never makes it through the
> Git mailing list.  So I dump the patches to an mbox with --stdout,
> open them up in mutt and resend them there.  I've bound shift-G
> to resend-message for that purpose...

Well, we need to do something about this. I haven't seen Robin's patch neither on the list nor in my mailbox (if they were CC'ed to me).

One thing that people need to be careful about is which SMTP server they use. I had an impression (I do not use send-email myself) that it defaulted to local MTA, so the mail trail would look like your local MTA receives from the MUA (which is send-email), which forwards it to whereever destination (or intermediaries). On the other hand, I suspect many people use their ISP's SMTP server when using their usual MUA, so the mail trail would look different. I do not know what filtering vger does, but if it is filtering based on the MTA address (dul.dnsbl.sorbs filtering comes to mind), that would make a difference.