Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > thinking that I could turn out for the night with a well-deserved drink, I > got this from vger.kernel.org: > > -- snip -- > SMTP error from remote server for TEXT command, host: vger.kernel.org (209.132.180.67) reason: 550 5.7.1 Content-Policy reject msg: Wrong MIME labeling on 8-bit character texts. > -- snap -- > > Is there *anybody* who could give me a clue what this means? Have you tried postmaster (at vger.kernel.org)? > > For the record, I tried to use `git send-email` to send out the > announcement for the very first time, and the headers of the mbox file I > fed to that command read thusly: > > -- snip -- > From 2.10.2.windows.1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> > Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2016 21:43:54 +0100 > To: git-for-windows@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.10.2 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > Fcc: Sent > -- snap -- > > The only problem I could *possibly* imagine is this UTF-8 bullet character > used in the enumerations in the mail body: > > • [...] The above header you showed says "Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8" and I am hoping that this response to you will go out with that labelling back to vger, so we will hopefully see if that bullet is the culprit (I doubt it, though). I have no specific suspect at this point yet, other than "somebody that gets your message from send-email and passes to vger may be mangling it".