Re: gmail screws up patches looking for workable workaround

[Jacob Helwig <jacob.helwig@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:20, Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@gmail.com> wrote:
>> "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

I should have looked more closely, when you posted your config.  You
have "[sendmail]", instead of "[sendemail]".  You're missing the "e"
on "email".  What made me re-look is the line right after "OK. Log
says:".

You should have seen:
OK. Log says:
Server: smtp.gmail.com

Not:
OK. Log says:
Sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail -i xenoterracide@gmail.com