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

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Dec 4, 2014, 19:33 UTC
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Luis Henriques <henrix@camandro.org> writes:
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> On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 08:56:45AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> I actually do not think this is a good idea from debuggability.
>
> Do you think this could be merged with yet another switch?  I can't
> think of a name for the switch, something like... "--hide-msgid"?

In case it wasn't clear, by "this" I meant the removal of "X-Mailer:", iow, "Adding --no-xmailer option is a bad idea from debuggability's point of view".

Not adding message-id is not an option; MSAs are supposed to always add one if they want to be RFC compliant, aren't they?

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