Re: [Quilt-dev] quilt mail format

[Rtp]

Greg KH <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 11:47:22AM +0100, Arnaud Patard wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm using quilt to send patches. My work flow is more or less:
>> - hack on dev box with quilt
>> - create mbox file with quilt mail --mbox ....
>> - copy the mail on a system which is able to send mails and send it
>> with:
>>   formail -s /usr/lib/sendmail -odi -t < .mbox
>> 
>> While it's working, every now and then, I'm getting some complains like:
>> 
>> submit the patch using the kernel guidelines (not as an attachment, but in 
>> the main body text-only)
>> 
>> Are there some steps I miss in order to not get theses complains and
>> keep my workflow ?
>
> Sounds like a problem with your version of sendmail, quilt doesn't
> create anything as an "attachment".  Or are you putting headers you
> don't mean to in the body of the changelog area?

Not that I know of. For reference, one example of  mbox file produced by
quilt is https://www.rtp-net.org/misc/soc-meson-fix-ids.mbox.
The headers don't seem to be different when I look at the mail archive
http://archive.armlinux.org.uk/lurker/mbox/20171129.093001.24ab394b.rfc822


> I use quilt mail every week for the stable kernel patch review process
> with no problems, so I kind of doubt it is a quilt problem.

I know and that's why I sent a mail. Given that people are using it and
get no complain, I may be doing something wrong but I fail to find what.

Thanks,
Arnaud