Re: attaching or inlining? what to do when you're stuck with a stupid mail client???[Ay

2003-10-10 Thread Geoff Thorpe
On October 9, 2003 10:54 pm, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote: On October 9, 2003 09:58 pm, Geoff Thorpe wrote: look/feel/use, like wine-cvs. I would have personally thought that attachments make more sense, because separating patches from text can be ambiguous and it's not as easy to send multiple

Re: attaching or inlining? what to do when you're stuck with a stupid mail client???[Ay

2003-10-10 Thread Dimitrie O. Paun
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Geoff Thorpe wrote: The submission and processing of patches is not something totally alien to me, though the specific history and conclusions reached w.r.t. wine mail lists is. That said, you needn't crusade the inlining argument by dispatching me to the list archives

Re: attaching or inlining? what to do when you're stuck with a stupid mail client???[Ay

2003-10-10 Thread Geoff Thorpe
FWIW: I'm away soon for a few days, so you'll have to continue this without me (a fact which is no doubt to your infinite relief :-). On October 10, 2003 11:27 am, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Geoff Thorpe wrote: [snip] I haven't dispatched you to the archives to be rude, but

Re: attaching or inlining? what to do when you're stuck with a stupid mail client???

2003-10-09 Thread Shachar Shemesh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Dimi, I'm deeply sorry about that and I understand your frustrations for I have frustrations of my own using my mail client. The problem is that I have no other choice but to use Notes as a mail client for external emails at my company and Notes really screws up

Re: attaching or inlining? what to do when you're stuck with a stupid mail client???

2003-10-09 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
As an alternative, if welcome on the list, we can zip/bzip the patch, this way they wont be mangled by Notes. Can't you just call your diffs something.txt and attach them? = Sylvain Petreolle (spetreolle_at_users_dot_sourceforge_dot_net) ICQ #170597259 Say NO to software patents

Re: attaching or inlining? what to do when you're stuck with a stupid mail client???

2003-10-09 Thread Dimitrie O. Paun
On October 9, 2003 08:11 am, Sylvain Petreolle wrote: As an alternative, if welcome on the list, we can zip/bzip the patch, this way they wont be mangled by Notes. No, this is most definitely not welcome on the list... -- Dimi.

Re: attaching or inlining? what to do when you're stuck with a stupid mail client???

2003-10-09 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Geoff Thorpe wrote: Couldn't the wine-patches list server simply pull the emails apart and reconstruct them according to some simple rules? I'm no Perl hacker, but I'm sure this could be stitched together easily by someone who is. I think I can do that. What I suggest: Attachments must be

Re: attaching or inlining? what to do when you're stuck with a stupid mail client???[A

2003-10-09 Thread Dimitrie O. Paun
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote: I think I can do that. What I suggest: Attachments must be either .diff or .patch. If you want, they can be bz2 or gz compressed. Mime type is disregarded. Also, the mail must be non-HTML (or, at least, must have a text only component). Emails that

Re: attaching or inlining? what to do when you're stuck with a stupid mail client???[A

2003-10-09 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Dimitrie O. Paun wrote: On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote: I think I can do that. What I suggest: Attachments must be either .diff or .patch. If you want, they can be bz2 or gz compressed. Mime type is disregarded. Also, the mail must be non-HTML (or, at least, must have a text only

Re: attaching or inlining? what to do when you're stuck with a stupid mail client???[Ay

2003-10-09 Thread Geoff Thorpe
Glad to hear someone is taking this up! :-) As for the approach, I think if you do take the approach of letting unmatched emails through, you should perhaps mangle the subject or prepend some template text to the body of the email. Otherwise it's less clear that someone will send a polite note

Re: attaching or inlining? what to do when you're stuck with a stupid mail client???[Ay

2003-10-09 Thread Dimitrie O. Paun
On October 9, 2003 09:58 pm, Geoff Thorpe wrote: look/feel/use, like wine-cvs. I would have personally thought that attachments make more sense, because separating patches from text can be ambiguous and it's not as easy to send multiple patches (eg. when submitting two alternative patches?)