Specifying account profile in MSMTP

Robert Dailey· Sep 24, 2014, 16:52 UTC · lore

Hey guys,

I'm using MSMTP to define 2 accounts: Work email and personal email. If I send patches via email through Git at work, I want to use my work SMTP server and account information. Likewise at home for personal projects, I want to use my personal SMTP account.

I put my .gitconfig in Dropbox and I share it across all of my machines, so I avoid putting my SMTP server information in my global config because I'd then have to use the same account everywhere. However, I do not define a "default" account in my MSMTP file (which is also in dropbox, in fact my whole home directory is in there).

Is there a way to specify the MSMTP account to use at the command line when I run `git send-email`? If not, are there other good solutions to this problem?

If not, I might contribute an option to send-email to feed down into MSMTP.exe so that I can specify the account to use. I'm not familiar at all with MSMTP so I want to ask here first. Thank you!

Eric Wong· Oct 19, 2014, 00:46 UTC · re: Robert Dailey · lore

Re: Specifying account profile in MSMTP

Robert Dailey <rcdailey.lists@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hey guys,
> 
> I'm using MSMTP to define 2 accounts: Work email and personal email.
> If I send patches via email through Git at work, I want to use my work
> SMTP server and account information. Likewise at home for personal
> projects, I want to use my personal SMTP account.
> 
> I put my .gitconfig in Dropbox and I share it across all of my
> machines, so I avoid putting my SMTP server information in my global
> config because I'd then have to use the same account everywhere.
> However, I do not define a "default" account in my MSMTP file (which
> is also in dropbox, in fact my whole home directory is in there).
> 
> Is there a way to specify the MSMTP account to use at the command line
> when I run `git send-email`? If not, are there other good solutions to
> this problem?

msmtprc can be configured to picks accounts based on the envelop sender specified by git send-email.

I make sure my email address in the git commits is correct and use use envelopesender=auto for git send-email when using msmtp.

Config examples below:

----------- ~/.gitconfig ---------------
[sendemail]
	smtpserver = /usr/bin/msmtp
	envelopesender = auto

---- /path/to/project_a/.git/config ----
[user]
	email = a@example.com
---- /path/to/project_b/.git/config ----
[user]
	email = b@example.com
------------ ~/.msmtprc ----------------
account a
host ...
from a@example.com
user a
password ...
auth ...

account b host ... from b@example.com user b password ... auth ...