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Re: [RFC][PATCH] send-email: add --[no-]xmailer option

From
Kyle J. McKay <mackyle@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 3, 2014, 03:22 UTC
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<CE4526D6-F223-4FD8-A66E-F39D85E843B2@gmail.com>
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On Dec 2, 2014, at 18:34, Eric Wong wrote:
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> Luis Henriques <henrix@camandro.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 09:38:27PM +0000, Luis Henriques wrote:
>>> Add --[no-]xmailer that allows a user to disable adding the 'X- 
>>> Mailer:'
>>> header to the email being sent.
>>>
>>
>> Ping
>>
>> It's been a while since I sent this patch.  Is there any interest in
>> having this switch in git-send-email?
>
> I wasn't paying attention when the original was sent, but this
> looks good to me.
>
> Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
>
>> I honestly don't like disclosing too much information about my  
>> system,
>> in this case which MUA I'm using and its version.
>
> Right on.  I would even favor this being the default.
I fully agree with you.
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> Auto-generated Message-Id headers also shows the use of git-send- 
> email;
> perhaps there can be a way to configure that, too.  However,
> git-send-email respects manually-added Message-Id headers in the
> original patch, so it's less of a problem, I suppose.
It can be hashed like so to avoid leaking information:
diff --git a/git-send-email.orig b/git-send-email.new
index f3d75e8..d0b4bff 100755
--- a/git-send-email.orig
+++ b/git-send-email.new
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ use Data::Dumper;
  use Term::ANSIColor;
  use File::Temp qw/ tempdir tempfile /;
  use File::Spec::Functions qw(catfile);
+use Digest::MD5 qw(md5_hex);
  use Error qw(:try);
  use Git;

@@ -901,8 +903,10 @@ sub make_message_id {
  		require Sys::Hostname;
  		$du_part = 'user@' . Sys::Hostname::hostname();
  	}
-	my $message_id_template = "<%s-git-send-email-%s>";
+	my $message_id_template = "%s-git-send-email-%s";
  	$message_id = sprintf($message_id_template, $uniq, $du_part);
+	@_ = split /@/, $message_id;
+	$message_id = '<'.substr(md5_hex($_[0]), 
0,31).'@'.substr(md5_hex($_[1]),1,31).'>';
  	#print "new message id = $message_id\n"; # Was useful for debugging
  }

---

--Kyle
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  2. Luis HenriquesDec 2, 2014
  3. Eric WongDec 3, 2014
  4. Kyle J. McKayDec 3, 2014
  5. Luis HenriquesDec 3, 2014
  6. Junio C HamanoDec 3, 2014
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