Re: [PATCH 01/10] Add a birdview-on-the-source-code section to the user manual

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Karl Hasselström <kha@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On 2007-05-15 01:08:08 -0400, Jeff King wrote:
>
>> However, the content-type is already specified, so it shouldn't need
>> to rewrite. However, I notice that your original message is missing
>> a MIME-Version: 1.0 header. My guess is that vger's logic is that
>> without that header, it can't trust the Content-Type you have
>> provided (and indeed, not including MIME-Version violates the MIME
>> RFCs, I believe).
>
> You know, this rings a bell. I've discovered that a "MIME-Version:
> 1.0" is needed before. :-)
>
> "stg mail" used to have the same problem, until it was changed to use
> the Python e-mail libraries for all that stuff. And since then I
> haven't had problems with it.
>
>> I assumed this was a bug in git-send-email, but looking closer, it
>> doesn't put in any mime information at all! So your sending smtp
>> server is adding in the content-type header, but it's failing to add
>> the MIME-Version header, which I think is a bug (I can dig up the
>> RFC reference if you want).
>>
>> Arguably, git should be generating the full MIME header-set, since
>> it knows what actual encoding the message is in.
>
> I very much agree.

If the above statement meand git-send-email by "git" I would
very much agree.

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