Subject: Query: Patches break with Microsoft exchange server.

From: [email-masked] (viresh kumar)
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:56:31 +0530

On 8/10/2010 2:52 PM, Gadiyar, Anand wrote:
> 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.
>> > 
> Upgrading the Exchange server worked for us a couple of years ago. At least
> git-send-email works okay now, but Outlook is horribly broken.
> 
> You could use gmail/others and send externally. Adding an explicit
> "From :" line in the patch can still give you credits to your official
> email address.
> 

Thanks Anand.

Lets see if our IT support team manages to upgrade to SP2 or not.

viresh.