On Dienstag, 3. September 2019 21:38:15 CEST Eric Blake wrote: > On 9/2/19 5:29 PM, Christian Schoenebeck via Qemu-devel wrote: > >>>>> === OUTPUT BEGIN === > >>>>> 1/4 Checking commit bb69de63f788 (9p: Treat multiple devices on one > >>>>> export > >>>>> as an error) ERROR: Author email address is mangled by the mailing > >>>>> list > >>>>> #2: > >>>>> Author: Christian Schoenebeck via Qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org> > >>>> > >>>> This is problematic since it ends up in the Author: field in git. > >>>> Please > >>>> find a way to fix that. > >>> > >>> Like in which way do you imagine that? And where is the actual practical > >>> problem? I mean every patch still has my signed-off-by tag with the > >>> correct > >>> email address ending up in git history. > >> > >> Yes, this only breaks Author: if the patch is applied from the list. > > Except that many maintainers DO apply mail from the list (thanks to 'git > am'). Fixing patchew to unmunge things is an appealing idea, but would > not fix the problem for maintainers not cloning from patchew, so even if > patchew avoids the problem locally, it should still continue to warn > about the problem. > > >>> The cause for this issue is that the domain is configured to require > >>> DKIM > >>> signatures for all outgoing emails. That's why mailman replaces my > >>> address > >>> by "Christian Schoenebeck via Qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>" > >>> placeholder since it could not provide a valid signature. > > And when you know that mailman is going to munge your address, the fix > is to configure git to output 'From: correct name <corr...@example.com>' > as the first line of the BODY of the message, since 'git am' favors the > unmunged From: from the body over the munged From: from the headers.
Ah I see, I will try that with the next 9p patch set round (probably tomorrow). Thanks for the hint! I actually had a quick glimpse on the patchew sources yesterday to see if there was some undocumented alternative header like "X-git-author:" or something like that, but could not find one. > > 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. > > > I use "git format-patch ..." to dump the invidiual emails as raw email > > sources and then I'll send those raw emails from the command line. So I > > have even more control of what is exactly sent out and could of course > > also add custom email header fields if required, if that would solve the > > situation somehow, i.e. manually as first test and later in automated > > way. That's not the issue here. > Working around the problem does not require munging email headers, but > adding a line to the email body.
