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From: l.stelmach@samsung•com (Łukasz Stelmach)
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] send-email: support NNTP
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:42:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bo94720r.fsf@samsung.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87zjwofken.fsf@linux-k42r.v.cablecom.net

It was <2013-04-24 śro 09:38>, when Thomas Rast wrote:
> Łukasz Stelmach <l.stelmach@samsung•com> writes:
>
>> Enable sending patches to NNTP servers (Usenet, Gmane).
>
> I'm surprised Junio didn't mention this: your patch lacks the
> Signed-off-by.
>
>> +	if ($email_protocol eq 'nntp') {
>> +		$header = "Newsgroups: $to\n" . $header;
>> +	} else {
>> +		$header = "To: $to${ccline}\n" . $header;
>> +	}
>
> Are you silently ignoring any Ccs that have been set if you're in NNTP
> mode?

Yes.

> Would it be possible to instead send the Ccs by mail as usual, and only
> the main message over NNTP?  (You don't need to run off and implement
> this, but I'm curious how hard you think it would be.)

Currently you choose a code path with --protocol. The message is sent
only once. It is possible to iterate over To/Cc/Bcc/Newsgroups and
choose send it more than once. There are some tiny nasty bits though, I
don't know how to handle. For example:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
@@ -761,12 +807,21 @@ if (!defined $sender) {
 }
 
 my $prompting = 0;
-if (!@initial_to && !defined $to_cmd) {
+
+if ($email_protocol eq 'smtp' && !@initial_to && !defined $to_cmd) {
 	my $to = ask("Who should the emails be sent to (if any)? ",
 		     default => "",
 		     valid_re => qr/\@.*\./, confirm_only => 1);
 	push @initial_to, parse_address_line($to) if defined $to; # sanitized/validated later
 	$prompting++;
+} elsif ($email_protocol eq 'nntp' &&
+	 !@initial_newsgroups &&
+	 !defined $newsgroups_cmd) {
+	my $newsgroup = ask("Which newsgroups should the message be sent to (if any)? ",
+		     default => "",
+		     valid_re => qr/[\x20-\x7f]+/, confirm_only => 1);
+	push @initial_newsgroups, $newsgroup if defined $newsgroup; # sanitized/validated later
+	$prompting++;
 }
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

How to ask interactively where to send the message? With protocol set
early it is clear what we are trying to do. Any suggestions?

The other issue is that I am not sure (RFC?) if it is OK to send
To/Cc/Bcc headers in a NNTP message. Theoretically they should not break
things but...

> At least in the git@vger world with a lot of etiquette surrounding the
> use of Ccs, NNTP mode isn't very useful if you can't also send Ccs.  But
> maybe you have another use-case where that is not a problem?

I've sent this patch vi NNTP :) You've got it.

-- 
Łukasz Stelmach
Software wizzard
Samsung Poland R&D Center

  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-24  8:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-23 11:13 [PATCH] send-email: support NNTP Łukasz Stelmach
2013-04-23 15:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-24  7:31   ` Łukasz Stelmach
2013-04-24 16:17     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-25  6:56       ` Łukasz Stelmach
2013-04-25 16:54         ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-25 17:35           ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-24  7:19 ` Eric Sunshine
2013-04-24  7:30   ` Łukasz Stelmach
2013-04-24  7:38 ` Thomas Rast
2013-04-24  8:42   ` Łukasz Stelmach [this message]
2013-04-24  9:29     ` Thomas Rast
2013-04-24 22:41   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-25  7:02     ` Łukasz Stelmach

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