# Problem with git send-email and --reply-to 3 messages from 2026-04-24 to 2026-04-24. Participants: Christian König, Ramsay Jones, Tian Yuchen. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/65548 ## Christian König, 2026-04-24 13:13 Subject: Problem with git send-email and --reply-to Message-ID: <26f3a5b2-1656-482a-9349-ca3592b8bba1@amd.com> ``` Hello everybody, either I've found a bug or there is something absolutely not obvious going on here with git send-email. I want to use the --reply-to option with git send-email to make sure that people reply to my AMD mail address and not my gmail address used for sending mails. When I use the option on the command line it works fine, but when I put that into my .gitconfig it doesn't seem to have any effect. Any idea what could be wrong here? .gitconfig looks like this: [user]     name = Christian König     email = christian.koenig@amd.com [sendemail]     reply-to = christian.koenig@amd.com Thanks in advance, Christian. ``` ## Ramsay Jones, 2026-04-24 13:42 Subject: Re: Problem with git send-email and --reply-to Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <26f3a5b2-1656-482a-9349-ca3592b8bba1@amd.com> ``` On 24/04/2026 2:13 pm, Christian König wrote: > Hello everybody, > > either I've found a bug or there is something absolutely not obvious going on here with git send-email. > > I want to use the --reply-to option with git send-email to make sure that people reply to my AMD mail address and not my gmail address used for sending mails. > > When I use the option on the command line it works fine, but when I put that into my .gitconfig it doesn't seem to have any effect. > > Any idea what could be wrong here? > > .gitconfig looks like this: > > [user] >     name = Christian König >     email = christian.koenig@amd.com > [sendemail] >     reply-to = christian.koenig@amd.com I don't think this is a valid config variable. It is not mentioned in the man page. In the source, it is noted as '# Variables we fill in automatically, or via prompting:' in addition to being part of the command-line '%options' map. So, ... Sorry not to be of more help. ATB, Ramsay Jones ``` ## Tian Yuchen, 2026-04-24 16:29 Subject: Re: Problem with git send-email and --reply-to Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <26f3a5b2-1656-482a-9349-ca3592b8bba1@amd.com> ``` On 4/24/26 21:13, Christian König wrote: > Hello everybody, > > either I've found a bug or there is something absolutely not obvious going on here with git send-email. > > I want to use the --reply-to option with git send-email to make sure that people reply to my AMD mail address and not my gmail address used for sending mails. > > When I use the option on the command line it works fine, but when I put that into my .gitconfig it doesn't seem to have any effect. > > Any idea what could be wrong here? > > .gitconfig looks like this: > > [user] >     name = Christian König >     email = christian.koenig@amd.com > [sendemail] >     reply-to = christian.koenig@amd.com > > Thanks in advance, > Christian. The most straightforward solution might be: [format] headers = "Reply-To: christian.koenig@amd.com" This is equivalent to manually adding this line at the beginning of the email. In most cases, there shouldn’t be any problems, I guess? Thanks, Yuchen ```