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Gmail Message rejection

Subject: Gmail Message rejection

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5 messages between Feb 9, 2015 and Feb 11, 2015.

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erik@aercon.net· Feb 9, 2015, 20:14 UTC · lore

Can I submit this as a bug report, that sending something from the gmail client results in this response?

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

      git@vger.kernel.org

Technical details of permanent failure: Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the server for the recipient domain vger.kernel.org by vger.kernel.org. [209.132.180.67].

The error that the other server returned was: 550 5.7.1 Content-Policy reject msg: The message contains HTML subpart, therefore we consider it SPAM or Outlook Virus. TEXT/PLAIN is accepted.! BF:<H 0.338318>; S932497AbbBIUIh

Stefan Beller· Feb 9, 2015, 21:37 UTC · re: erik@aercon.net · lore

Re: Gmail Message rejection

Hi Erik,

this is not a bug but a feature. ;) Actually rejecting HTML is one of the easiest ways to avoid 95 % of spam mails. If you want email to send via gmail, you can do so by enabling "text only" mode for sending mails.

That is good for general discussion. But if you intend to send a patch, beware! gmail as well as most of other mail clients wrap text on their on ("optimized for human readability"), but a patch needs to go through unchanged that it applies on the receiving side cleanly. Therefore I'd recommend setting up git send-email, which does exactly what git needs and wants for sending patches.

2015-02-09 12:14 GMT-08:00  <erik@aercon.net>:

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> Can I submit this as a bug report, that sending something from the gmail
> client results in this response?
>
> Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:
>
>      git@vger.kernel.org
>
> Technical details of permanent failure:
> Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the server for
> the recipient domain vger.kernel.org by vger.kernel.org. [209.132.180.67].
>
> The error that the other server returned was:
> 550 5.7.1 Content-Policy reject msg: The message contains HTML subpart,
> therefore we consider it SPAM or Outlook Virus.  TEXT/PLAIN is accepted.!
> BF:<H 0.338318>; S932497AbbBIUIh
>
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Matthieu Moy· Feb 10, 2015, 17:35 UTC · re: Stefan Beller · lore

Re: Gmail Message rejection

Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@gmail.com> writes:

> If you want email to send via gmail, you can do so by enabling "text
> only" mode for sending mails.

Unfortunately, it is also a known "bug" that the Android Gmail client doesn't have this option (or didn't last time I checked).

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Constantine A. Murenin· Feb 10, 2015, 20:52 UTC · re: Matthieu Moy · lore

Re: Gmail Message rejection

On 10 February 2015 at 09:35, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:

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> Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> If you want email to send via gmail, you can do so by enabling "text
>> only" mode for sending mails.
>
> Unfortunately, it is also a known "bug" that the Android Gmail client
> doesn't have this option (or didn't last time I checked).

Don't use it, then!

We should not design our infrastructure to the lowest common denominator like that. Especially if it's just a question of supporting broken brand new implementations, those which couldn't have been bothered to adhere to the best practices.

C.

Matthieu Moy· Feb 11, 2015, 10:38 UTC · lore

Re: Gmail Message rejection

Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@gmail.com> writes:

> Trying to send from an Android Gmail client. Though the option was
> called "answer inline".

... and still sends multipart text/html message, sorry.

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Matthieu Moy
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