On 02.04.22 09:52, Kalle Valo wrote: > Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> On 01.04.22 16:22, David Hildenbrand wrote: >>>> On 01.04.22 16:19, Zi Yan wrote: >>>>> On 1 Apr 2022, at 10:12, David Hildenbrand wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On 01.04.22 15:58, Zi Yan wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> It's weird, your mails arrive on my end as empty body with attachment. I >>>>>> first suspected Thunderbird, but I get the same result on the google >>>>>> mail web client. >>>>>> >>>>>> Not sure why that happens. >>>>> >>>>> No idea. They look fine (except mangled links by outlook) on my outlook >>>>> desk client and web client on my side. lore looks OK too: >>>>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20220401135820.1453829-1-zi.yan@xxxxxxxx/ >>>> >>>> I can spot in the raw mail I receive >>>> >>>> "Content-Type: application/octet-stream; x-default=true" >>>> >>>> But that seems to differ to the lore mail: >>>> >>>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20220401135820.1453829-1-zi.yan@xxxxxxxx/raw >>>> >>>> >>>> Maybe something in my mail server chain decides to do some nasty >>>> conversion (grml, wouldn't be the first time) >>>> >>> >>> Weird thing is that this only happens with your mails. I opened an >>> internal ticket, sorry for the noise. >> >> Zi's patch emails I received didn't have Content-Type, that might have >> something to do with this. (But his reply later in the thread did have >> one.) Also last week I got one patch email with no Content-Type either >> and my Gnus decided to convert it to octet-stream, I guess to be on the >> safe side. No idea if something similar is happening to you, but wanted >> to mention it anyway. > > Just to clarify, I assumed Gnus was doing the conversion to octet-stream > but I never verified that. > > Heh, interestingly enough that patch was sent from redhat.com: > > https://lore.kernel.org/all/877d8eyz61.fsf@xxxxxxxxxx/ > > Is that just a coincidence or are Redhat servers doing something > strange? If you find out, do let me know. I'm very curious :) > It is strange. Also mails from Andrew result in the same, unusable/unreadable mails in my inbox. :( Right now I assume that Mimecast servers try to auto-detecting and adding "Content-type:", and somehow mess up. And I do think that it doesn't always mess up; some patch content (encoding?) seems to trigger that. -- Thanks, David / dhildenb
