Re: [PATCH v4] send-email: add --[no-]outlook-id-fix option

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Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> Add an option to allow users to specifically enable or disable
> retrieving the Message-ID from the Outlook SMTP server. This can be used
> for other hosts mimicking the behaviour of Outlook, or for users who set
> a custom domain to be a CNAME for the Outlook SMTP server.
>
> While at it, lets also add missing * in description of --no-smtp-auth.
>
> Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2: Replace tab with spaces in "outlookidtweak" => \$outlook_id_tweak,
> v3: Rename to --[no-]outlook-id-fix and make it bool. Also add missing
>     * in description of --no-smtp-auth.
> v4: Improve documentation and the log message. Also, have the final
>     "return $outlook_id_fix;" on its own line.
>
>  Documentation/git-send-email.adoc | 13 +++++++++++++
>  git-send-email.perl               | 14 ++++++++++++--
>  2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.adoc b/Documentation/git-send-email.adoc
> index 7f223db42d..7ccca16296 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-send-email.adoc
> +++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.adoc
> @@ -115,6 +115,19 @@ illustration below where `[PATCH v2 0/3]` is in reply to `[PATCH 0/2]`:
>  Only necessary if --compose is also set.  If --compose
>  is not set, this will be prompted for.
>  
> +--[no-]outlook-id-fix::
> +	Microsoft Outlook SMTP servers discard the Message-ID sent via email and
> +	assign a new random Message-ID, thus breaking threads.
> +
> +	With `--outlook-id-fix`, 'git send-email' uses a mechanism specific to
> +	Outlook servers to learn the Message-ID the server assigned to fix the
> +	threading. Use it only when you know that the server reports the
> +	rewritten Message-ID the same way as Outlook servers do.
> +
> +	Without this option specified, the fix is done by default when talking
> +	to 'smtp.office365.com' or 'smtp-mail.outlook.com'. Use
> +	`--no-outlook-id-fix` to disable even when talking to these two servers.

You'd need the usual "a line with only + on it as the paragraph
separator, with subsequent paragraphs dedented" mark-up.  I'll tweak
this part on my end.




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