linux-kernel - Re: Query: Patches break with Microsoft exchange server.

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Date:	Mon, 9 Aug 2010 08:19:10 +0100
From:	Valeo de Vries <valeo@...eo.co.cc>
To:	viresh kumar <viresh.kumar@...com>
Cc:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Query: Patches break with Microsoft exchange server.

2010/8/9 viresh kumar <viresh.kumar@...com>:
> On 8/9/2010 12:19 PM, Uwe Kleine-König 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
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