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

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