From: David Newall

On 25/05/14 03:13, David Miller wrote:

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This patch was substantially corrupted by your email client.

We should be sending these things as mime attachments.  Having to put
patches inline is brittle, absurd and a waste of everyone's time.  Is
there actually anybody here who doesn't have a mime-compatible MUA?

Yes - anyone using the email client from the world's largest desktop
computer software company.

It doesn't have any method for displaying text attachments.
It has a scheme for executing attachments, for which it will use
an interpreter based on the filename extension.
(Yes - this is why it is very good at propagating viruses.)

FWIW it can send valid patches quite easily - just copy/paste from wordpad.
(Possibly after hacking the registry to allow lines longer than 72 characters.

	David