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git-send-email(1) uses sendmail(8) as the MTA by default. However, this can be changed by passing the --sendmail-cmd option. $ man git-send-email | sed -n '/--sendmail-cmd=/,/^$/p' --sendma...
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#2: Post edited
by
alx
·
2024-04-22T10:08:43Z (8 months ago)
- *git-send-email*(1) uses sendmail(8) as the MTA by default. However, this can be changed by passing the `--sendmail-cmd` option.
- ```
- $ man git-send-email | sed -n '/--sendmail-cmd=/,/^$/p'
- --sendmail-cmd=<command>
- Specify a command to run to send the email. The command should
- be sendmail-like; specifically, it must support the -i option.
- The command will be executed in the shell if necessary.
- Default is the value of sendemail.sendmailcmd. If unspecified,
- and if --smtp-server is also unspecified, git-send-email will
- search for sendmail in /usr/sbin, /usr/lib and $PATH.
- ```
- or the equivalent, `sendemail.sendmailcmd`, in git-config(1).
- A MUA program like neomutt(1) can be used for this purpose:
- ```
- [sendemail]
- sendmailcmd = neomutt -C -H - && true
- ```
The `&& true` trick is to ignore the arguments that git-send-mail(1) passes to the MTA, which neomutt(1) doesn't need. The -C flag was added (disclaimer: I did that) to neomutt(1) recently to allow using crypto when running in batch mode (reading from stdin), which is disabled otherwise.- This has other benefits, like not having to configure `[sendemail]` for git-send-email(1) if you already have neomutt(1) configured.
- See also: <https://neomutt.org/feature/cli-crypto>
- *git-send-email*(1) uses sendmail(8) as the MTA by default. However, this can be changed by passing the `--sendmail-cmd` option.
- ```
- $ man git-send-email | sed -n '/--sendmail-cmd=/,/^$/p'
- --sendmail-cmd=<command>
- Specify a command to run to send the email. The command should
- be sendmail-like; specifically, it must support the -i option.
- The command will be executed in the shell if necessary.
- Default is the value of sendemail.sendmailcmd. If unspecified,
- and if --smtp-server is also unspecified, git-send-email will
- search for sendmail in /usr/sbin, /usr/lib and $PATH.
- ```
- or the equivalent, `sendemail.sendmailcmd`, in git-config(1).
- A MUA program like neomutt(1) can be used for this purpose:
- ```
- [sendemail]
- sendmailcmd = neomutt -C -H - && true
- ```
- The `&& true` trick is to ignore the arguments that git-send-mail(1) passes to the MTA, which neomutt(1) doesn't need. The -C flag was added (disclaimer: I did that) to neomutt(1) recently to allow using crypto when running in batch mode (reading from stdin), which is disabled by default.
- This has other benefits, like not having to configure `[sendemail]` for git-send-email(1) if you already have neomutt(1) configured.
- See also: <https://neomutt.org/feature/cli-crypto>
#1: Initial revision
by
alx
·
2024-04-22T10:07:47Z (8 months ago)
*git-send-email*(1) uses sendmail(8) as the MTA by default. However, this can be changed by passing the `--sendmail-cmd` option.
```
$ man git-send-email | sed -n '/--sendmail-cmd=/,/^$/p'
--sendmail-cmd=<command>
Specify a command to run to send the email. The command should
be sendmail-like; specifically, it must support the -i option.
The command will be executed in the shell if necessary.
Default is the value of sendemail.sendmailcmd. If unspecified,
and if --smtp-server is also unspecified, git-send-email will
search for sendmail in /usr/sbin, /usr/lib and $PATH.
```
or the equivalent, `sendemail.sendmailcmd`, in git-config(1).
A MUA program like neomutt(1) can be used for this purpose:
```
[sendemail]
sendmailcmd = neomutt -C -H - && true
```
The `&& true` trick is to ignore the arguments that git-send-mail(1) passes to the MTA, which neomutt(1) doesn't need. The -C flag was added (disclaimer: I did that) to neomutt(1) recently to allow using crypto when running in batch mode (reading from stdin), which is disabled otherwise.
This has other benefits, like not having to configure `[sendemail]` for git-send-email(1) if you already have neomutt(1) configured.
See also: <https://neomutt.org/feature/cli-crypto>