[Bug 45151] wine-devel: 'git send-email' via Zoho SMTP makes WineHQ mail queue go berserk

[wine-bugs at winehq.org]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45151

Kyle Auble <kyle.auble at zoho.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|patches: 'git send-email'   |wine-devel: 'git
                   |through Zoho SMTP causes    |send-email' via Zoho SMTP
                   |patch queue to go berserk   |makes WineHQ mail queue go
                   |                            |berserk

--- Comment #2 from Kyle Auble <kyle.auble at zoho.com> ---
So Jeremy let me know that the same patch I sent last Friday started blasting
wine-devel again. He mentioned that it was stuck in the exim retry queue. I've
sent a support request to Zoho to see if they can tell me anything from their
end; once they get back to me, I'll report any useful information.

I don't know details about how the mail system is set up, but if a queue in
exim is where the message was lingering, my guess is the SMTP connection
between the MTA and Zoho is specifically where things go haywire. Wouldn't that
also explain why the patch queue sees all the repeats while mailman understands
it's just one message? I've edited the bug name to reflect the new hypothesis.

I also tried googling for similar bug reports, and I really couldn't find
anything. The one that seemed possibly related was that apparently using
'format-patch' and 'send-email' in tandem can sometimes duplicate headers:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=593542

I know Jeremy mentioned at one point he thought the messages themselves might
be garbled. If this turns out to be the problem, I'll just add a note on the
Submitting Patches page.

The only other things that jumped out were some discussions of how greylisting
works on exim, which reminded me of the 4xx messages I got. For now though,
that's all I have.

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