RE: Query: Patches break with Microsoft exchange server.

From: Gadiyar, Anand
Date: Tue Aug 10 2010 - 05:22:44 EST


viresh kumar wrote:
> On 8/9/2010 2:31 PM, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 12:26:24PM +0530, viresh kumar wrote:
> >> >
> >> > I missed this information in my last mail. We are using git send-email for
> >> > sending patches. As patches will go through Microsoft exchange server only,
> >> > so they are broken.
> >> >
> > Let your boss complain to your IT keepers.
> > "These are Machine-to-Machine messages, they must not be modified!"
> >
> >
> > It would probably be "against corporate policy" to use gmail for these emails...
> >
>
> We got one solution: Upgrade Exchange server to SP2.
> Lets see if our IT department does this upgradation.
>

Upgrading the Exchange server worked for us a couple of years ago. At least
git-send-email works okay now, but Outlook is horribly broken.

You could use gmail/others and send externally. Adding an explicit
"From :" line in the patch can still give you credits to your official
email address.

- Anand
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