Dual content (text/plain and text/html) on xen-devel (was Re: Linux PV domU with >1 vCPU never resumes after xl save/restore)
George Dunlap <[email protected]> Wed, 5 Aug 2026 22:15:27 +1000
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[Adding back in xen-devel, since this is relevant] On Wed, Aug 5, 2026 at 9:15 PM Jürgen Groß <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04.08.26 11:34, George Dunlap wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 4, 2026 at 6:45 PM Jürgen Groß <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > > > P.S.: George, would it be possible to turn off HTML mails when > sending to > > xen-devel? > > > > > > I see both a text/plain part and a text/html part in the mail I sent; > isn't the > > presence of a text/plain version sufficient? > > > > Obviously sending patches is a different matter; but for that I'll be > using git- > > send-email. > > This is a reply to your mail using Thunderbird (which I have configured to > use > plain text format as the default, in order to comply with most mailing > lists > I'm using). > > I don't think Thunderbird is an exotic MUA, but please have a look how it > rendered your HTML reply to my original mail. I can't see clearly which > part > was written by me originally and was cited by you in this mail. > Thanks, this is what I was looking for. Attached is the message Gmail sent. As you can see, text/plain uses normal `>` for quotes. That makes me think that the problem is in Thunderbird. It should either take the text/plan part, and reply to that as though it were the only part it had received; or it should take the HTML part, and convert the quotes to text properly. Replying in HTML and then rendering it with only space indentations seems like a bug. Thunderbird certainly isn't exotic, but last time I used it it was definitely under-maintained. You're asking every person who sends an email to xen-devel to remember to take an action before sending the mail (or to send *all* mail as text/plain, even if it's not to xen-devel), because your MUA isn't handling the standard properly. Is that really reasonable? Couldn't you tell Thunderbird to ignore html and only render text/plain? -George
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MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2026 19:34:13 +1000 References: <CAFLBxZZLYxk4ZZZ9++B9qRn_J8X6ochbHr4037mbC8sDfsRqDA@mail.gmail.com> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <CAFLBxZYffb3bOS4Zz8m2QX52J6V9-ZonaxPCULoqyRLpPKh-VQ@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: Linux PV domU with >1 vCPU never resumes after xl save/restore From: George Dunlap <[email protected]> To: =?UTF-8?B?SsO8cmdlbiBHcm/Dnw==?= <[email protected]> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0000000000009c70350658355b6f" --0000000000009c70350658355b6f Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Aug 4, 2026 at 6:45=E2=80=AFPM J=C3=BCrgen Gro=C3=9F <[email protected]= om> wrote: > > P.S.: George, would it be possible to turn off HTML mails when sending to > xen-devel? > I see both a text/plain part and a text/html part in the mail I sent; isn't the presence of a text/plain version sufficient? Obviously sending patches is a different matter; but for that I'll be using git-send-email. -George --0000000000009c70350658355b6f Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr"><span style=3D"background-color:transpare= nt">On Tue, Aug 4, 2026 at 6:45=E2=80=AFPM J=C3=BCrgen Gro=C3=9F <<a hre= f=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>> wrote:</span></div><di= v class=3D"gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class=3D"gmail_qu= ote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,20= 4);padding-left:1ex"><br> P.S.: George, would it be possible to turn off HTML mails when sending to<b= r> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0xen-devel?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I= see both a text/plain part and a text/html part in the mail I sent; isn= 9;t the presence of a text/plain version sufficient?</div><div><br></div><d= iv>Obviously sending patches is a different matter; but for that I'll b= e using git-send-email.</div><div><br></div><div>=C2=A0-George</div></div><= /div> --0000000000009c70350658355b6f--