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

From: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: Nov 9, 2023, 16:08 UTC
Message-ID: <vooebygemslmvmi4fzxtcl474wefcvxnigqeestmruzrsj5zsu@5kkq3pveol6c>
In-Reply-To: <ZUz6H3IqRc1YGPZM@debian>

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

> 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.  :)

Since it's a Linux project, I suggest also checking out b4, which will do the mail sending for you as part of the contributor-oriented features:

https://b4.docs.kernel.org/en/latest/contributor/overview.html

We also provide a web relay for people who can't configure or use SMTP due to their company policies.

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> > > Would you mind adding this as part of git?  Or should we suggest the
> > > mutt project adding this script?
> > 
> > IMHO it is a little too weird and user-specific to really make sense in
> > either project. It's really glue-ing together two systems. And as it's
> > not something I use myself, I don't plan it moving it further along. But
> > you are welcome to take what I wrote and do what you will with it,
> > including submitting it to mutt.
> 
> I'll start by creating a git repository in my own server, and will write
> something about it to let the public know about it.  I'll also start
> requiring contributors to linux-man@ to sign their patches, and
> recommend them using this if they use mutt(1).

B4 will also sign your patches for you. ;)

-K