On 22.12.2021 04:26, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
On Fri, Dec 17 2021, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:[...] - on the receiving end, the patches will be written to a dedicated lore.kernel.org feed *as-is*, but also sent to the recipients after doing the usual From/Reply-To substitution and moving the original From into the in-body git headers (i.e. same as GGG does).That GGG does this is one reason I haven't considered using it. It breaks all sorts of E-Mail workflow assumptions from polluting the address book for every person who uses it, to any "from:<addr>" search needing special consideration etc.
I agree that this is a very annoying side-effect of GGG.
Of course you'd need authentication etc, but is there a reason for why such tooling can't work more like an SMTP relay and less like GGG which (for some reason) insists on taking over the "From" header?
I think SPF/DMARC spam filtering will prevent tools like GGG to do this any other way. For GGG to be able to send with your From: you'd either need to give it access to your smtp credentials or configure your whole domain to allow GGG mail servers (basically github) to send email for it. I think both options are not really something you'd want.
I think in its case it's because it wanted to mirror all the discussion to GitHub. But presumably a ML-native tool won't have that problem (and presumably GGG could do the same mirroring by following the ML after submission).
