# Gmail Message rejection

5 messages from 2015-02-09 to 2015-02-11. Participants: erik@aercon.net, Stefan Beller, Matthieu Moy, Constantine A. Murenin.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/38539

## erik@aercon.net, 2015-02-09 20:14

Subject: Gmail Message rejection
Message-ID: <20150209201408.Horde.2Ts12JtaemmvhMa5RcSg8w1@server.aercontechnologies.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20150209201408.Horde.2Ts12JtaemmvhMa5RcSg8w1%40server.aercontechnologies.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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## Stefan Beller, 2015-02-09 21:37

Subject: Re: Gmail Message rejection
Message-ID: <CALbm-EaxbmajmcbqVMN-Jp-xcrqW=P2DGeyqKPg-YM+zncd5bQ@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CALbm-EaxbmajmcbqVMN-Jp-xcrqW%3DP2DGeyqKPg-YM%2Bzncd5bQ%40mail.gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <20150209201408.Horde.2Ts12JtaemmvhMa5RcSg8w1@server.aercontechnologies.net>

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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>:
> 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, 2015-02-10 17:35

Subject: Re: Gmail Message rejection
Message-ID: <vpqvbj9acum.fsf@anie.imag.fr>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/vpqvbj9acum.fsf%40anie.imag.fr
In-Reply-To: <CALbm-EaxbmajmcbqVMN-Jp-xcrqW=P2DGeyqKPg-YM+zncd5bQ@mail.gmail.com>

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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).

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

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## Constantine A. Murenin, 2015-02-10 20:52

Subject: Re: Gmail Message rejection
Message-ID: <CAPKkNb7Q++LxcDzz-MfGZLLJsqiNC-N=42RfVQ6EZRJBp-_iww@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAPKkNb7Q%2B%2BLxcDzz-MfGZLLJsqiNC-N%3D42RfVQ6EZRJBp-_iww%40mail.gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <vpqvbj9acum.fsf@anie.imag.fr>

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

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## Matthieu Moy, 2015-02-11 10:38

Subject: Re: Gmail Message rejection
Message-ID: <vpq1tlwag2s.fsf@anie.imag.fr>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/vpq1tlwag2s.fsf%40anie.imag.fr
In-Reply-To: <CALbm-EYvrk6N5W0EVr0+6V37dj=SG_mtU_hyrhRgePMnbPYx1g@mail.gmail.com>

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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.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

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