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Re: gmail screws up patches looking for workable workaround

From
Jacob Helwig <jacob.helwig@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 13, 2009, 19:35 UTC
Message-ID
<8c9a060902131135m2b8e89d3s25d3b4455dae0f32@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:20, Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> "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
> <xenoterracide@gmail.com>]
> Emails will be sent from: Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@gmail.com>
> 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 <xenoterracide@gmail.com> from line
> 'From: Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@gmail.com>'
> (sob) Adding cc: Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@gmail.com> from line
> 'Signed-off-by: Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@gmail.com>'
> postdrop: warning: unable to look up public/pickup: No such file or directory
> OK. Log says:
> Sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail -i xenoterracide@gmail.com

I should have looked more closely, when you posted your config. You have "[sendmail]", instead of "[sendemail]". You're missing the "e" on "email". What made me re-look is the line right after "OK. Log says:".

You should have seen:
OK. Log says:
Server: smtp.gmail.com
Not:
OK. Log says:
Sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail -i xenoterracide@gmail.com
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  1. Caleb CushingFeb 13, 2009
  2. Jacob HelwigFeb 13, 2009
  3. Caleb CushingFeb 13, 2009
  4. Jacob HelwigFeb 13, 2009
  5. Caleb CushingFeb 13, 2009
  6. Jacob HelwigFeb 13, 2009
  7. Sitaram ChamartyFeb 14, 2009

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