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From: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	ppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: administrivia: mails containing HTML attachments
Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 11:42:18 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <79d78539-19b0-0647-e823-fe0ba8d1c839@au1.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180516144829.2dbefb0b@canb.auug.org.au>

On 16/05/18 14:48, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have decided that any email sent to the linuxppc-dev mailing list
> that contains an HTML attachment (or is just an HTML email) will be
> rejected.  The vast majority of such mail are spam (and I have to spend
> time dropping them manually at the moment) and, I presume, anyone on
> this list is capable of sending no HTML email.
> 
> Feel free to discuss ;-)

As it turns out, there's some bugs in how Patchwork handles HTML emails 
that can screw up the resulting patch mboxes when retrieved from 
Patchwork. We're hoping to fix that in the next Patchwork release, but 
in the meantime this restriction should stop us running into any issues 
on this list.

-- 
Andrew Donnellan              OzLabs, ADL Canberra
andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com  IBM Australia Limited

      parent reply	other threads:[~2018-05-17  1:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-16  4:48 administrivia: mails containing HTML attachments Stephen Rothwell
2018-05-16  7:07 ` Gabriel Paubert
2018-05-16 14:46 ` Stewart Smith
2018-05-17  1:42 ` Andrew Donnellan [this message]

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