Re: Gmail and unwanted line-wrapping

From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 7, 2010, 00:50 UTC
Message-ID: <76718491002061650ge299426s22de5e00b26af108@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100207002413.GA14744@gmail.com>

> I've added it to the Git Wiki:
> http://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitTips#Using_gmail_to_send_your_patches

If you're on MacOS X and have MacPorts installed, then install both the curl and msmtp packages, then use an .msmtprc as follows:

defaults tls on tls_trust_file /opt/local/share/curl/curl-ca-bundle.crt syslog LOG_MAIL

# gmail account gmail host smtp.gmail.com port 587 auth on from jaysoffian@gmail.com user jaysoffian@gmail.com

# Default account account default : gmail

Adjusting for you account of course. And in your git config:

[sendemail]
	smtpserver = /opt/local/bin/msmtp

Now why would you do this you ask instead of using git's built-in SMTP support? Because I provided a patch to msmtp long ago that lets it access your gmail password from Mac OS X's keychain. Note that it looks for a password stored in the same format as Mail.app would store it, see the msmtp man page for details.

FWIW, I think Gnome also has a keychain like thingy that msmtp can also query.

j.