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Re: [PATCH] Add a MIME-Version header to e-mails

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CMCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 16, 2006, 17:24 UTC
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On 11/11/06, Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com> wrote:
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> One potentially hazardous thing: you encode the mail before letting
> the user edit it (with the -e and -E switches). This means that the
> user can insert non-ascii characters in the body after you've already
> decided it's safe to use 7bit encoding. It also means that the user
> must be careful to rfc2047-encode any changes to the Subject: and
> From: headers.

I changed this to edit the mail before encoding it. You can no longer see the full headers (those added by StGIT) but even in a normal e-mail client you can only see the whole headers after sending it (and if you receive it back).

Previous: Karl Hasselström
Message 10 of 10 in “Re: [PATCH] Allow hand-editing of patches before sending”
  1. Jakub NarebskiNov 5, 2006
  2. Add a MIME-Version header to e-mailsKarl Hasselström, Nov 6, 2006
  3. Karl HasselströmNov 6, 2006
  4. Catalin MarinasNov 7, 2006
  5. Catalin MarinasNov 7, 2006
  6. Karl HasselströmNov 8, 2006
  7. Catalin MarinasNov 8, 2006
  8. Karl HasselströmNov 8, 2006
  9. Karl HasselströmNov 11, 2006
  10. Catalin MarinasNov 16, 2006

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