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patchRe: [PATCH] post-receive-email: ensure sent messages are not empty

Subject: Re: [PATCH] post-receive-email: ensure sent messages are not empty

## tl;dr

One message between Sep 7, 2010 and Sep 7, 2010. Diffs are folded; open one to read it.

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Kevin P. Fleming· Sep 7, 2010, 19:04 UTC · lore
On 09/07/2010 02:02 PM, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
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> Changes the logic in the script to determine whether an email message
> will be sent before invoking the send_mail() function; otherwise, if
> the logic determines that a message will not be sent, send_mail() will
> cause an empty email to be sent. In addition, ensures that if multiple
> refs are updated and a message cannot be sent for one of them,
> the others are still processed normally.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kevin P. Fleming <kpfleming@digium.com>

Just bringing this one back to the list again, since Junio's preparing for a freeze for 1.7.3. Allowing post-receive-email to generate an empty email message can be quite problematic, depending on the MTA in use on the system where the script is run... in our case, it caused the MTA to generate bounce messages which were then delivered to the admin of our corporate MTA, who had no clue what was causing them since they had no content.

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