From: mihai.dontu@gmail•com (Mihai Donțu)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: Query: Patches break with Microsoft exchange server.
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 21:15:25 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201008092115.25992.mihai.dontu@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C6040FC.2020702@gmail.com>
On Monday 09 August 2010 20:55:08 Justin P. Mattock wrote:
> On 08/09/2010 07:35 AM, Mihai Don?u wrote:
> > On Monday 09 August 2010 12:43:16 Justin P. Mattock wrote:
> >> On 08/09/2010 02:35 AM, viresh kumar wrote:
> >>> On 8/9/2010 2:31 PM, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> >>>> On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 12:26:24PM +0530, viresh kumar wrote:
> >>>>>> I missed this information in my last mail. We are using git
> >>>>>> send-email for sending patches. As patches will go through
> >>>>>> Microsoft exchange server only, so they are broken.
> >>>>
> >>>> Let your boss complain to your IT keepers.
> >>>> "These are Machine-to-Machine messages, they must not be modified!"
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> It would probably be "against corporate policy" to use gmail for these
> >>>> emails...
> >>>
> >>> We got one solution: Upgrade Exchange server to SP2.
> >>> Lets see if our IT department does this upgradation.
> >>
> >> that or just blast them with some cryptology..i.e. pretty sure if your
> >> message was encapsulated(AH/ESP) they couldn't tweak it.. but then
> >> sending such encryption to a public list would require a _key_ on the
> >> other side.. wishful thinking...
> >> (just a thought)...
> >
> > Shouldn't just signing the message be enough? The server (normally) would
> > not alter it, otherwise it will break the signature (which is a too
> > obvious bug even for Microsoft). Or am I missing something here?
> >
> > PS: A local SMTP with DKIM signing capabilities could be another
> > possibility, assuming Exchange does not break such signatures.
>
> yeah that would probably be just enough to get through without Microsoft
> mucking around with the font etc.., but the biggest problem(I see) with
> the encryption is having the key on the other end of the line.
Wait. I don't think we're on the same page here. I'm talking about message
signing (which does not require the receiving end to have any key - it's the
same plain text e-mail with a blob after it) while you refer to actually
encrypting the message. Mm? Or am I being extremely slow today? :-)
--
Mihai Don?u
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-09 18:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-19 20:23 Query: Patches break with Microsoft exchange server viresh kumar
2010-08-09 14:19 ` Richard Cochran
2010-08-10 22:04 ` Felipe Contreras
2010-08-11 7:01 ` viresh kumar
2010-08-11 15:46 ` Jeffrey Hundstad
2010-08-11 15:58 ` David Woodhouse
2010-08-11 16:16 ` Jeffrey Hundstad
2010-08-11 16:18 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-08-11 16:30 ` David Woodhouse
2010-08-11 16:39 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-08-12 4:41 ` viresh kumar
2010-08-16 0:32 ` Gururaja Hebbar K R
2018-06-19 20:24 ` Justin P. Mattock
2018-06-19 20:24 ` viresh kumar
2018-06-19 20:24 ` Justin P. Mattock
2018-06-19 20:24 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2018-06-19 20:24 ` viresh kumar
2018-06-19 20:26 ` Matti Aarnio
2018-06-19 20:26 ` viresh kumar
2010-08-10 9:22 ` Gadiyar, Anand
2010-08-10 9:26 ` viresh kumar
2018-06-19 20:26 ` Justin P. Mattock
2010-08-09 14:35 ` Mihai Donțu
2010-08-09 17:55 ` Justin P. Mattock
2010-08-09 18:15 ` Mihai Donțu [this message]
2010-08-09 18:53 ` Justin P. Mattock
2010-08-09 21:28 ` David Woodhouse
2010-08-09 21:56 ` Justin P. Mattock
2010-08-11 14:05 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-06-19 20:26 ` David Woodhouse
2018-06-19 20:42 ` Willy Tarreau
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