Re: Missing MIME-headers in git-email-tool ..

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Oct 30, 2007, 12:07 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710301157290.4362@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20071030112750.GA6372@mea-ext.zmailer.org>

Hi,

[please Cc: me]

On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Matti Aarnio wrote:

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> On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 10:31:41AM +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> > 
> > > The  git-send-email  does send posts without any sort of MIME labeling:
> > > 
> > >   From: / To: removed
> > > 
> > >   Subject: [PATCH 0/2] Blackfin I2C/TWI driver updates
> > >   Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:33:15 +0800
> > >   Message-Id: <1193736797-9005-1-git-send-email-bryan.wu@analog.com>
> > >   X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.5.3.4
> > >   Precedence: bulk
> > > 
> > > 
> > > which per MIME rules means that the message in question is equivalent
> > > to one with header labels:
> > > 
> > >   MIME-Version: 1.0
> > >   Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
> > >   Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> > 
> > AFAICT MIME headers are only added when needed.  (But that might only 
> > apply to format-patch; however, if you signed off with your name, all 
> > should be well.)
> 
> I wish that were true..   We (VGER's Postmasters that is) would not see
> so much rejections from all over the places...   Would it motivate you
> if we sent all GIT caused ones to you ?

Heh.

I'm not a send-mail user myself, so I did not ever have any reason to dive into its source code. Sorry.

I understand your pain. But as we assume UTF-8 in git if no other encoding is selected, I think it makes more sense to default to UTF-8.

That said, I actually like the behaviour which I think is intended, to not specify anything when the message can be interpreted as US-ASCII.

BTW I tried to find anything in the message you referenced which would make it non-ASCII, but I did not find anything. But then, I am not subscribed to the lkml, and can only get stripped down versions of the mails via marc or kerneltrap.

Any send-email gurus want to join into this discussion?

Ciao, Dscho