Re: [Quilt-dev] error with "Signed-off-by" names not being proper email names

[Greg KH]

On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 04:46:19PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi Greg, Andreas,
> 
> > > Current quilt has heuristics built in for handling most patches well
> > > enough. As part of those heuristics, it adds addresses from To: lines
> > > in patch headers to the To: mail header, and Signed-off-by:,
> > > Acked-by:, and Cc: to the Cc: mail header. It doesn't check those
> > > addresses for validity or try to quote them, so that's probably what
> > > causes this problem.
> > 
> > It's checking them for validity and dieing when they aren't in the
> > proper format.
> 
> I think sendmail is checking and dying, not quilt. Quilt actually
> doesn't seem to make any check.

How can sendmail be involved when I use the "--mbox" option to create
the emails?

thanks,

greg k-h