Re: [Q] submitting patches from gmail

> On Saturday 18 October 2008 14:08, Leo Razoumov wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone,
>> I wonder what is the preferred way to submit patches from a gmail account.
>> Google mail auto wraps long lines and there is no way to change this setting.
>> Safe way would be to use attachments. Are they allowed on git mailing list?
>
> I've been sending patches from gmail for a while without problems. It took me
> a while to find a working configruation, but I finally managed to do it using
> msmtp. I have
>
> [sendemail]
>        smtpserver = /usr/bin/msmtp
>
> in my ~/.gitconfig
>
> and the following ~/.msmtprc
>
> ======
> # Example for a user configuration file
>
> # Set default values for all following accounts.
> defaults
> tls on
> tls_trust_file /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
> logfile ~/.msmtp.log
>
> # My email service
> account gmail
> host smtp.gmail.com
> from yourgmailusername@gmail.com
> auth on
> user yourgmailusername
> password yourgmailpassword

> # Set a default account
> account default : gmail
> =========
>
> And to send patches I just use something like
>
> git send-email --to "git@vger.kernel.org" --cc "whoever" 00*