[PATCH] git-send-email: honor $PATH

From

Florian Klink <flokli@flokli.de>

Date

Nov 18, 2017, 12:42 UTC

Message-ID

<20171118124249.26479-1-flokli@flokli.de>

Signed-off-by: Florian Klink <flokli@flokli.de>
---
 Documentation/git-send-email.txt | 5 ++---
 git-send-email.perl              | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
index bac9014ac..b9b1f2c41 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
@@ -203,9 +203,8 @@ a password is obtained using 'git-credential'.
 	specify a full pathname of a sendmail-like program instead;
 	the program must support the `-i` option.  Default value can
 	be specified by the `sendemail.smtpServer` configuration
-	option; the built-in default is `/usr/sbin/sendmail` or
-	`/usr/lib/sendmail` if such program is available, or
-	`localhost` otherwise.
+	option; the built-in default is to search in $PATH if such program is
+	available, or `localhost` otherwise.
 
 --smtp-server-port=<port>::
 	Specifies a port different from the default port (SMTP
diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
index 2208dcc21..8e357aeab 100755
--- a/git-send-email.perl
+++ b/git-send-email.perl
@@ -885,7 +885,8 @@ if (defined $initial_reply_to) {
 }
 
 if (!defined $smtp_server) {
-	foreach (qw( /usr/sbin/sendmail /usr/lib/sendmail )) {
+	my @sendmail_paths = map {"$_/sendmail"} split /:/, $ENV{PATH};
+	foreach (@sendmail_paths) {
 		if (-x $_) {
 			$smtp_server = $_;
 			last;

-- 
2.15.0