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Re: [PATCH] commit email includes valid date header

From: Hyrum K. Wright <hyrum_wright_at_mail.utexas.edu>
Date: 2006-10-16 16:00:16 CEST

Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
> William Pietri wrote:
>> Hi. Here's my first patch for you folks; I hope I've done this correctly.
>>
>> The current commit-email.pl script sends out a message without a "Date"
>> header. That header is mandatory, but most mail servers will add one if
>> it's missing. Qmail is not one of those mail servers, so our commit
>> notices ended up being sorted into the wrong end of the inbox or nixed
>> by spam filters.
>>
>> Attached is a patch to fix that. This being Perl, there's more than one
>> way to do this, so let me know if you'd like it done differently.
>
> Ping...
>
> Thanks for the patch, William. Does a committer have a chance to take a
> look at this patch? If nothing happens in the next few days, I'll file
> an issue.

Filed as issue 2633.

-Hyrum

>> [[[
>>
>> * tools/hook-scripts/commit-email.pl.in: Add RFC822-compliant
>> date header to emails; header is mandatory per RFC2822.
>>
>> ]]]
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Index: tools/hook-scripts/commit-email.pl.in
>> ===================================================================
>> --- tools/hook-scripts/commit-email.pl.in (revision 21717)
>> +++ tools/hook-scripts/commit-email.pl.in (working copy)
>> @@ -100,7 +100,9 @@
>> }
>>
>> require Net::SMTP if defined $smtp_server;
>> +use POSIX qw(strftime);
>>
>> +
>> ######################################################################
>> # Initial setup/command-line handling.
>>
>> @@ -540,6 +542,8 @@
>> push(@head, "To: $to\n");
>> push(@head, "From: $mail_from\n");
>> push(@head, "Subject: $subject\n");
>> + push(@head, "Date: " .
>> + strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z", localtime) . "\n");
>> push(@head, "Reply-to: $reply_to\n") if $reply_to;
>>
>> ### Below, we set the content-type etc, but see these comments
>

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