Re: PLEASE READ: kernelci.org bot email problems

[Matt Hart]

On Thu, 1 Nov 2018 at 18:51, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> The bot@xxxxxxxxxxxx emails are being bounced by vger.kernel.org
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> The reason is that there are always syntax errors in the SMTP
> headers.
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> Specifical, the From address is:
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> From:   kernelci.orgbot <bot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> By SMTP rules, when special characters such a '.' appear in
> headers, the string must be surrounded by double quotes.

We mostly just rely on gmail to deal with this, so it's pretty
disappointing to see a malformed header.

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> Can someone please contact whoever maintains the bot so
> they can fix this?

Many thanks for the info! We'll get on this asap.

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> Thank you.