Re: Android Replies to Git List getting rejected

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Theodore Ts'o [off-list ref] wrote:

On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 01:33:23PM -0600, John 'Warthog9' Hawley wrote:

quoted

It's pretty simple: you sent HTML mail to vger.kernel.org, and it
explicitly rejects all HTML e-mail.  GMail, particularly from Android,
apparently doesn't have a way to bypass sending HTML mail (it's been a
much maligned bug).

Yeah, sigh.  Drew, I suggest that you star the following bug:

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=8712

... and perhaps leave a comment in the bug report that you can't
interact with the git mailing list because of this limitation.

I'm sure you know (since you indicated that you sent your e-mail via
the web interface of Gmail), that this is at least something you can
control in the desktop/web version of Gmail (just enable "Plain text"
mode) --- but it would certainly be nice if users had the choice of
whether they wanted to participate on vger mailing lists using the
Android application, versus the Web interface, or using Mutt or Pine
on a Linux box.

Regards,

                                        - Ted
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There were several discussions about that on the list and
unfortunately list moderators didn't pay enough attention to it.
Android Gmail sends totally valid multipart message that has HTML and
plain-text part.
List being unable to process those correctly and cut off HTML part is
a limitation.
I personally feel that i could and would be more active on the list if
not for this limitation.

<rant>
Don't want to accept HTML messages - fine. But don't tell me which
program to use for my email, especially when I'm sending totally valid
message, so take my plain text message part and use it.
</rant>

Thanks,
Eugene