On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 04:42:28AM +0000, Yifei Zhan wrote: > However I'm more concerned about the mailing part of the process, > since problems in it can't be easily detected on sender's machine
> (some mailhosters would mangle inline patches when sending to other > hosts (Protonmail once had this problem, not sure if they fixed it > now)), and there is no undo botton for this list. > I remember setting up my email client was a PITA and Thunderbird would > mangle my patch no matter what, solene@ helped me testing my patch > many times until the whole setup finally worked. > Perhaps there can be a loopback address e.g. test-loopb...@openbsd.org > which just check if the patch can be applied and not mangled. Send it to yourself through your mailer. Use the patch you receive. If it doesn't work, don't send it to the lists, keep fixing your email client. I can't take credit for this idea, stsp@ mentioned it in his talk about device driver development. --Kurt
