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From: Justin P. Mattock on 9 Aug 2010 03:40 On 08/08/2010 11:55 PM, viresh kumar wrote: > On 8/9/2010 12:12 PM, Justin P. Mattock wrote: >> On 08/08/2010 11:07 PM, viresh kumar wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> Mail server in ST has recently changed and now we have Microsoft >>>> exchange server. We are using thunderbird as mail client. >>>> What we observed with this server is that patch are broken now while >>>> sending as well as receiving. Tabs are replaced by spaces and may >>>> be some other too which we haven't observed. >>>> >>>> Has anybody found a solution to this kind of issues? Are there any >>>> workarounds possible? >>>> >> >> still trying to figure this out with thunderbird.. but did notice in >> Documentation/email-clients.txt and SubmittingPatches >> there's info about that(just haven't gotten around to reading use git >> send-email for patches) >> >> hope this helps. > > I missed this information in my last mail. We are using git send-email for > sending patches. As patches will go through Microsoft exchange server only, > so they are broken. > > viresh. > hmm.. then I don't know the answer to that.. always send through git send-email(patches)and things are good(knock-on-wood)always ran into issues with copy/pasting onto thunderbird. Hopefully somebody else with more knowledge of using git send-email patches through microsoft exchange answers this.. side note: maybe postfix or some type of wrapper around the wording message(utf-8) to keep microsoft from mangling things or something.(tough to say though) Justin P. Mattock -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
From: Valeo de Vries on 9 Aug 2010 05:10 On 9 August 2010 08:47, viresh kumar <viresh.kumar(a)st.com> wrote: > Valeo, > > Thanks for this. It really helped us. No worries! Valeo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
From: Matti Aarnio on 9 Aug 2010 05:10 On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 12:26:24PM +0530, viresh kumar wrote: > > I missed this information in my last mail. We are using git send-email for > sending patches. As patches will go through Microsoft exchange server only, > so they are broken. > Let your boss complain to your IT keepers. "These are Machine-to-Machine messages, they must not be modified!" It would probably be "against corporate policy" to use gmail for these emails... > With previous server everything was working fine. > viresh. Best Regards, Matti Aarnio, one of <postmaster at vger.kernel.org> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
From: viresh kumar on 9 Aug 2010 05:40 On 8/9/2010 2:31 PM, Matti Aarnio wrote: > On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 12:26:24PM +0530, viresh kumar wrote: >> > >> > I missed this information in my last mail. We are using git send-email for >> > sending patches. As patches will go through Microsoft exchange server only, >> > so they are broken. >> > > Let your boss complain to your IT keepers. > "These are Machine-to-Machine messages, they must not be modified!" > > > It would probably be "against corporate policy" to use gmail for these emails... > We got one solution: Upgrade Exchange server to SP2. Lets see if our IT department does this upgradation. viresh. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
From: Justin P. Mattock on 9 Aug 2010 05:50
On 08/09/2010 02:35 AM, viresh kumar wrote: > On 8/9/2010 2:31 PM, Matti Aarnio wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 12:26:24PM +0530, viresh kumar wrote: >>>> >>>> I missed this information in my last mail. We are using git send-email for >>>> sending patches. As patches will go through Microsoft exchange server only, >>>> so they are broken. >>>> >> Let your boss complain to your IT keepers. >> "These are Machine-to-Machine messages, they must not be modified!" >> >> >> It would probably be "against corporate policy" to use gmail for these emails... >> > > We got one solution: Upgrade Exchange server to SP2. > Lets see if our IT department does this upgradation. > > viresh. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > that or just blast them with some cryptology..i.e. pretty sure if your message was encapsulated(AH/ESP) they couldn't tweak it.. but then sending such encryption to a public list would require a _key_ on the other side.. wishful thinking... (just a thought)... :-) Justin P. Mattock -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ |