On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 03:28:40PM +0200, Brian Foster wrote: > On Thursday 17 July 2008 21:59:45 Daniel Laird wrote: > > > > I am having issues getting patches to the mailing list in a format > > that seems to be acceptable. > > I have done all I can to the patch itself but I am having mail client > > issues as well. > > I have tried Gmail with plaintext. [ ... ] > > > > Is there anyone who has used a web mail client and had success, most > > details out there [ ... not for ] people with Work based mail accounts. > > Dan, > > Guessing a bit, that sounds a lot like the problem I had: > It was (and still is) impossible to use the company's SMTP > MTA to send a patch (or even an acceptable list posting), > even if the client (MUA) wasn't going to mess things up. > > But, if you have a Gmail account, it can be done! In fact, > that is what I'm doing to send this reply: Using the MUA at > the company, but *not* using the company's SMTP. The secret > is Gmail now has SMTP (and IMAP) support, as well as the POP > support they've had for awhile. You need to enable the SMTP > for your Gmail account, and arrange for a non-corrupting MUA > to use Gmail's SMTP, and (assuming your company's firewall > et al. doesn't cause issues), things may just work. I'd like to remind people of the wiki page on this topic at http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/Mailing-patches It's not been updated in a while and doesn't cover all clients or possible solutions so feel free to update it. Ralf
