Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] scripts: report on author emails that are mangled by the mailing list

[Markus Armbruster]

Peter Maydell <address@hidden> writes:

> On 23 August 2018 at 11:25, Daniel P. Berrangé <address@hidden> wrote:
>> In some cases the Author: email address in patches submitted to the
>> list gets mangled such that it says
>>
>>     John Doe via Qemu-devel <address@hidden>
>>
>> This change is a result of workarounds for DMARC policies.
>
> I do wonder if overall we'd be better off with the other
> workaround (don't change From lines in list emails, don't
> add "[Qemu-devel]" prefix to subject lines)... It would be
> a one-off annoyance to people who filter list mail on subject
> rather than other headers, but it would get rid of this annoying
> wart where a handful of senders end up with their mail with
> a from address that our patch management tools don't handle
> very well...

Mangling e-mail headers is a bad idea.  The fact that it's commonly held
only makes it worse.

If you can hack QEMU, filtering on List-Id should not be an
insurmountable obstacle.