Re: gmail screws up patches looking for workable workaround

[Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@gmail.com>]

> "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
From: Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@gmail.com>
To: xenoterracide@gmail.com
Subject: [PATCH] remove mysql-community-5.1*beta
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:19:14 -0500
Message-Id: <1234549154-24500-1-git-send-email-xenoterracide@gmail.com>
X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.6.1.3
In-Reply-To: <xenoterracide@gmail.com>
References: <xenoterracide@gmail.com>

Result: OK

and yet no email ever arrives at my inbox. (or spam for that matter)
-- 
Caleb Cushing

http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com