2006-03-22 04:14:01

by Sam Vilain

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Subject: vger ate my patch!

And if my theory is correct, this message will also not make it to LKML.


2006-03-22 11:50:43

by Matti Aarnio

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Subject: Re: vger ate my patch!

On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 04:13:33PM +1200, Sam Vilain wrote:
> From: Sam Vilain <[email protected]>
> Subject: vger ate my patch!
> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2006 16:13:33 +1200
> To: [email protected]
> Message-Id: <[email protected]>
>
> And if my theory is correct, this message will also not make it to LKML.

Hmm.. Yes it did... I found them in junk-pile, and the reason was:

From: Sam Vilain <[email protected]>
Subject: [RFC] [PATCH 3/7] [vserver] Add /proc visibility of vserver info
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:13:35 +1200
To: [email protected]
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <[email protected]>,
Eric W.Biederman <[email protected]>,
OpenVZ developers list <[email protected]>,
Dave Hansen <[email protected]>, Serge E.Hallyn <[email protected]>,
Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Illegal-Object: Syntax error in Cc: addresses found on vger.kernel.org:
Cc: Eric W.Biederman <[email protected]>
^ ^-missing end of address
\-extraneous tokens in address



Your MUA software doesn't do proper text element quoting, when said
element has RFC-822 specials in it.

Had the Cc: been either of following, there would not have been this
syntax error biting on junk filter:

Eric W Biederman <[email protected]>
"Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>

Have fun.

/Matti Aarnio

2006-03-23 03:18:20

by Sam Vilain

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Subject: Re: vger ate my patch!

Matti Aarnio wrote:

>>And if my theory is correct, this message will also not make it to LKML.
>>
>>
>Hmm.. Yes it did... I found them in junk-pile, and the reason was:
>
>

Thanks for that diagnostic, Matti. I had considered that the reason
might have been something to do with the recipients, but thought that a
binary search involving them would have been a tad rude.

>Your MUA software doesn't do proper text element quoting, when said
>element has RFC-822 specials in it.
>
>

Yes, I was hand editing the mbox file produced by `stg mail'. That'll
learn me :-)

Sam.