Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755649Ab0HIHsJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Aug 2010 03:48:09 -0400 Received: from eu1sys200aog107.obsmtp.com ([207.126.144.123]:55899 "EHLO eu1sys200aog107.obsmtp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755548Ab0HIHsH (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Aug 2010 03:48:07 -0400 Message-ID: <4C5FB2AC.40605@st.com> Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 13:17:56 +0530 From: viresh kumar User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 ThunderBrowse/3.3.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Valeo de Vries Cc: linux-kernel Subject: Re: Query: Patches break with Microsoft exchange server. References: <4C5F9B25.8080401@st.com> <20100809064957.GB16661@pengutronix.de> <4C5FA698.90904@st.com> In-Reply-To: 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: 1881 Lines: 45 On 8/9/2010 12:49 PM, Valeo de Vries wrote: > 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, Thanks for this. It really helped us. viresh. -- 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/