Re: Android Replies to Git List getting rejected

From: Eugene Sajine <euguess@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 7, 2012, 21:25 UTC
Message-ID: <CAPZPVFZJkxK50eA+saMKLHAc=wCioTFF0PVw=Xhcrf3GpzPydA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120807205524.GA3953@thunk.org>

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:

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> On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 01:33:23PM -0600, John 'Warthog9' Hawley wrote:
>> It's pretty simple: you sent HTML mail to vger.kernel.org, and it
>> explicitly rejects all HTML e-mail.  GMail, particularly from Android,
>> apparently doesn't have a way to bypass sending HTML mail (it's been a
>> much maligned bug).
>
> Yeah, sigh.  Drew, I suggest that you star the following bug:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=8712
>
> ... and perhaps leave a comment in the bug report that you can't
> interact with the git mailing list because of this limitation.
>
> I'm sure you know (since you indicated that you sent your e-mail via
> the web interface of Gmail), that this is at least something you can
> control in the desktop/web version of Gmail (just enable "Plain text"
> mode) --- but it would certainly be nice if users had the choice of
> whether they wanted to participate on vger mailing lists using the
> Android application, versus the Web interface, or using Mutt or Pine
> on a Linux box.
>
> Regards,
>
>                                         - Ted
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There were several discussions about that on the list and unfortunately list moderators didn't pay enough attention to it. Android Gmail sends totally valid multipart message that has HTML and plain-text part. List being unable to process those correctly and cut off HTML part is a limitation. I personally feel that i could and would be more active on the list if not for this limitation.

<rant> Don't want to accept HTML messages - fine. But don't tell me which program to use for my email, especially when I'm sending totally valid message, so take my plain text message part and use it. </rant>

Thanks, Eugene