# Specifying account profile in MSMTP 2 messages from 2014-09-24 to 2014-10-19. Participants: Robert Dailey, Eric Wong. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/37626 ## Robert Dailey, 2014-09-24 16:52 Subject: Specifying account profile in MSMTP Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAHd499C5FZietAxQYBFwk%2BZm0AeLWSADog7%2B%3DW0Fnm6G1sPSHw%40mail.gmail.com ``` 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, 2014-10-19 00:46 Subject: Re: Specifying account profile in MSMTP Message-ID: <20141019004602.GA1977@dcvr.yhbt.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20141019004602.GA1977%40dcvr.yhbt.net In-Reply-To: ``` Robert Dailey wrote: > 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 ... ```