On Donnerstag, 5. September 2019 14:59:31 CEST Greg Kurz wrote: > On Thu, 05 Sep 2019 14:25:13 +0200 > > Christian Schoenebeck <qemu_...@crudebyte.com> wrote: > > On Mittwoch, 4. September 2019 15:02:30 CEST Christian Schoenebeck wrote: > > > > > Well, mailman is handling this correctly. It replaces the "From:" > > > > > field > > > > > with a placeholder and instead adds my actual email address as > > > > > "Reply-To:" field. That's the common way to handle this on mailing > > > > > lists, > > > > > as also mentioned here: > > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMARC#From:_rewriting > > > > > > > > > > So IMO patchew should automatically use the value of "Reply-To:" in > > > > > that > > > > > case as author of patches instead. > > > > > > > > > > Reducing security cannot be the solution. > > > > > > > > No, there's no need to reduce security. Just change your local git > > > > configuration to produce a 'From:' line in the commit body.. > > > > > > Got it. :) > > > > > > > >> How are you sending patches ? With git send-email ? If so, maybe > > > > >> you > > > > >> can > > > > >> pass something like --from='"Christian Schoenebeck" > > > > >> <qemu_...@crudebyte.com>'. Since this is a different string, git > > > > >> will > > > > >> assume you're sending someone else's patch : it will automatically > > > > >> add > > > > >> an > > > > >> extra From: made out of the commit Author as recorded in the git > > > > >> tree. > > > > > > > > I think it is probably as simple as a 'git config' command to tell git > > > > to always put a 'From:' in the body of self-authored patches when > > > > using > > > > git format-patch; however, as I don't suffer from munged emails, I > > > > haven't actually tested what that setting would be. > > > > Well, I tried that Eric. The expected solution would be enabling this git > > setting: > > > > git config [--global] format.from true > > https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#Documentation/git-config.txt-formatfro > > m > > > > But as you can already read from the manual, the overall behaviour of git > > regarding a separate "From:" line in the email body was intended solely > > for > > the use case sender != author. So in practice (at least in my git version) > > git always makes a raw string comparison between sender (name and email) > > string and author string and only adds the separate From: line to the > > body if they differ. > > > > Hence also "git format-patch --from=" only works here if you use a > > different author string (name and email) there, otherwise on a perfect > > string match it is simply ignored and you end up with only one "From:" in > > the email header. > > > > So eventually I added one extra character in my name for now and removed > > it > > manually in the dumped emails subsequently (see today's > > "[PATCH v7 0/3] 9p: Fix file ID collisions"). > > Hence my proposal in some other mail to pass a different string to > git send-email, but I guess this also works for git format-patch. > > eg, adding double quotes around your "firstname name" > > --from='"Christian Schoenebeck" <qemu_...@crudebyte.com>'
Yeah, I will use that for now, since it just works^TM (I tested it). Because for some reason my emails are still mangled on this list. Probably I still have to drop more header fields from dkim's "h=..." setting. We'll see.
