git-send-email is omitting author and date lines

From: Hanspeter Kunz <hp@edelkunz.ch>
Date: Sep 23, 2007, 22:13 UTC
Message-ID: <1190585633.29937.44.camel@localhost>

Hi,

sorry if this is a stupid question, but I'm new to git.

When sending a patch to myself using `git-send-email` I realized that the lines containing the author and the date (lines 5 and 6 in the patch file) were not in the sent email.

Is this on purpose? And if so, why?

Thanks, Hp.

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