Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755470Ab0HIHWt (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Aug 2010 03:22:49 -0400 Received: from mail-ww0-f44.google.com ([74.125.82.44]:33139 "EHLO mail-ww0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754943Ab0HIHWh convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Aug 2010 03:22:37 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4C5FA698.90904@st.com> References: <4C5F9B25.8080401@st.com> <20100809064957.GB16661@pengutronix.de> <4C5FA698.90904@st.com> Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 08:19:10 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Query: Patches break with Microsoft exchange server. From: Valeo de Vries To: viresh kumar Cc: linux-kernel Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1660 Lines: 41 2010/8/9 viresh kumar : > On 8/9/2010 12:19 PM, Uwe Kleine-K?nig wrote: >> Hello, >> >> On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 11:37:33AM +0530, 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. >> unlucky you. >> >>> > Has anybody found a solution to this kind of issues? Are there any >>> > workarounds possible? >> git.git has some tips for thunderbird, see >> >> ? ? ? http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/SubmittingPatches;hb=HEAD >> >> and look for the section titled "Thunderbird" (small surprise). > > 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. > > With previous server everything was working fine. You might want to take a look at http://bombadil.infradead.org/~mcgrof/MS-exchange-sucks-for-patches/ for a possible explanation. Long story short: upgrade Exchange, or use a different SMTP server that doesn't try to be smarter than its users (or should that be an SMTP server that isn't just plain arse-backwards?). Valeo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/