Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 9 Aug 2010 13:17:56 +0530 | From | viresh kumar <> | Subject | Re: Query: Patches break with Microsoft exchange server. |
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On 8/9/2010 12:49 PM, Valeo de Vries wrote: > 2010/8/9 viresh kumar <viresh.kumar@st.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,
Thanks for this. It really helped us.
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