On October 9, 2003 08:46 am, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
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...
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.
Eg. (a) prune out HTML emails, (b) prune out binary/executable attachments, and of course (c) identify common patch file-extensions/MIME-types/mistakes and correctly inline/attach them according to the preferred mechanics? This could be adapted and improved as/when new combinations of strange MUAs and strange users start to create difficulties - even Lotus Notes could be accommodated! <grin> Note, with this approach I think it would make sense to create a second mail alias that does the same checking but returns parsing results to the sender rather than forwarding to the list. Ie. people could use that to check things out if their patches aren't "getting through" without the regular list-server having to bounce mails (like a bad spam filter). Just my $0.02.
Cheers, Geoff