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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-imap-send and "From "
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 13:55:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061021175519.GA7432@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200610211751.21581.andyparkins@gmail.com>

On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 05:51:17PM +0100, Andy Parkins wrote:

> From 0e3c0aefc3276bd271553d171ed9bcc52d85230e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:24:40 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] Use email address only for looking up signing key in git-tag
> 
> It's that first line that's the problem.  It was generated by
> git-format-patch of course, however, I assume that it was intended to
> be stripped on the way to the IMAP server.  So,

That makes sense; git-format-patch generates an mbox, not a raw message.

>  * Courier's /usr/bin/imapd should have stripped it and didn't
>  * git-imap-send shouldn't have sent it

git-imap-send shouldn't be sending it. The IMAP protocol works with
RFC822 messages, not mboxes.

> Can anyone help me out with which it should be?  Or point me at the relevant 
> RFC?

RFC2060, section 6.3.11 (APPEND).

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-21 17:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-21 16:51 git-imap-send and "From " Andy Parkins
2006-10-21 17:55 ` Jeff King [this message]
2006-10-21 18:01   ` Jeff King
2006-10-21 18:11   ` Andy Parkins

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