From: Caleb Cushing Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:20:46 GMT Subject: Re: gmail screws up patches looking for workable workaround Message-ID: <81bfc67a0902131020w66e114b7ke642ab8308e530c3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8c9a060902131011u5bc7d0dft4edc4adb1af1dad8@mail.gmail.com> > "git imap-send" doesn't use the [sendmail] section of the .gitconfig. > It uses the [imap] section. The [sendmail] configuration is if you're > using "git send-email". yeah... I've both set up, and followed your sendmail instructions explicitly > If you setup the smtp* options, you don't need a local MTA, since > send-email will use the SMTP server you configured. tell that to the postdrop (postfix) error that I saw on the screen. > Are you still getting the corruption if you let format-patch generate > the patch on disk (don't use the --stdout option), and give the patch > filename(s) as the final arguments to send-email? (Could you show the > new sequence of commands you're using, and what the output is?) > no... no corruption locally. the problem is the mail never arrives. I don't know where it disappears at, but it doesn't make it to the inbox I send it to, and I really, really, really do not want to troubleshoot any of the 1000 places it could have gone wrong git send-email 00* 0001-remove-mysql-community-5.1-beta.patch Who should the emails appear to be from? [Caleb Cushing ] Emails will be sent from: Caleb Cushing Who should the emails be sent to? xenoterracide@gmail.com Message-ID to be used as In-Reply-To for the first email? xenoterracide@gmail.com (mbox) Adding cc: Caleb Cushing from line 'From: Caleb Cushing ' (sob) Adding cc: Caleb Cushing from line 'Signed-off-by: Caleb Cushing ' postdrop: warning: unable to look up public/pickup: No such file or directory OK. Log says: Sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail -i xenoterracide@gmail.com From: Caleb Cushing To: xenoterracide@gmail.com Subject: [PATCH] remove mysql-community-5.1*beta Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:19:14 -0500 Message-Id: <1234549154-24500-1-git-send-email-xenoterracide@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.6.1.3 In-Reply-To: References: Result: OK and yet no email ever arrives at my inbox. (or spam for that matter) -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com