Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/4] IOMMU: allow MSI message to IRTE propagation to fail

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 27.03.13 at 15:55, George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Did you look at the mail in your mailreader, or in the raw mail format?  

In the mail reader of course (after all I expect you to use a mail
client too). And as said, I saw some damage when looking at the
copy on lists.xen.org.

> If you're using your mail reader, it's probably interpreting the 
> wordwrap stuff properly.  The "raw" mail looks like this:
> 
> http://marc.info/?l=xen-devel&m=136428861403115&q=raw 
> 
> The above is what GMail sees if I click "show original", and also what 
> the Citrix mail system gives me if I save the mail as a file. This 
> mangling is apparently called "quoted-printable": 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoted-printable 
> 
> The problem is that "patch" (and thus "git apply", "git am", "hg 
> import", &c &c), not being a mail-reader, doesn't know how to de-mangle 
> stuff.

And rightly so. But your mail client saving the mail should deal with
this properly. (And besides, if you already save the mail, I don't
see why you can't instead save the attachment).

> What mail client do you use to send your e-mails?

GroupWise.

>> Furthermore I don't see why mails sent by means other than the mail
>> client we use over here wouldn't suffer from similar issues, as they
>> would still pass the same gateways.
> 
> Because typically it's the mail client that encodes stuff (and decodes 
> stuff) from plain text into quoted-printable, not mailer demons that 
> translate it.  What e-mail client do you use?  If there was an option to 
> have it send stuff as "text/plain" rather than quoted-printable, I think 
> that would do it.

There isn't, unfortunately. I had quite a bit of a fight to at least
have them get attachments through without mangling them.

Jan


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