Re: git-send-email: Send with mutt(1)

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Nov 9, 2023, 18:03 UTC
Message-ID: <20231109180308.GA2711684@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <ZUz6H3IqRc1YGPZM@debian>

On Thu, Nov 09, 2023 at 04:26:23PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:

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> I've tried something even simpler:
> 
> ---8<---
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> mutt -H -;
> --->8---
> 
> I used it for sending a couple of patches to linux-man@, and it seems to
> work.  I don't have much experience with mutt, so maybe I'm missing some
> corner cases.  Do you expect it to not work for some case?  Otherwise,
> we might have a winner.  :)

Wow, I don't know how I missed that when I read the manual. That was exactly the feature I was thinking that mutt would need. ;)

So yeah, that is obviously better than the "postponed" hackery I showed. I notice that "-H" even causes mutt to ignore "-i" (a sendmail flag that Git adds to sendemail.sendmailcmd). So you can just invoke it directly from your config like:

  git config sendemail.sendmailcmd "mutt -H -"

Annoyingly, "-E" doesn't work when reading over stdin (I guess mutt isn't willing to re-open the tty itself). But if you're happy with not editing as they go through, then "-H" is then that's enough (in my workflow, I do the final proofread via mutt).

-Peff