Re: Peculiar reply from mail list handler???

[Lucien Murray-Pitts <lucienmp.qemu@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 8:29 PM Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/5/19 9:09 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > On Sat, 5 Oct 2019 at 18:13, John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> wrote:
> >> I'm not clear on the particulars of mail delivery protocols or what
> >> lists.sr.ht is, but we indeed do not like HTML mail sent to this list.
> >
> > I suspect the lists.sr.ht address is just some subscriber to the
> > QEMU mailing list -- the list server sent your mail to all
> > the subscribers, including that one, which then complained
> > to you. But the QEMU list itself is OK with HTML email
> > (we prefer plain text, but we don't reject HTML).
>
> I subscribed to sr.ht some time ago to test the service because they
> provide a CI, git hosting, mailing list, so this might come from my
> account. If so, I'm surprise it send email on the subscriber behalf.
>
> Per https://man.sr.ht/lists.sr.ht/etiquette.md#plain-text:
>
>    Rich text is not desirable for development-oriented email
>    conversations, so you should disable this feature and send
>    your email as "plain text". Every email client is different,
>    you should research the options for your specific client.
>    HTML emails are rejected by all sr.ht services.
>
> Surprisingly there is no option to allow HTML... (plain text is a design
> feature).

Yep, I forgot to change it and was intending to just write a quick message
without having to fire up my Linux box.  Had a "damn it" moment the
second the reply bounced back.

But was a little more concerned the list had its own issues as the
domain looked a little suspect at first glance (I hadnt seen it before,
and the style looks unusual / lazy )

Anyway, something directly mailed back.  And yes I will see where the
gmail "plain text first" options are so I dont mess it up again

Cheers,
Luc