On 07/27/2013 01:26 PM, Philip Oakley wrote: > Try 'git format-patch' and 'git send-email'. The format-patch man page > even has a note about Thunderbird corruptions. > > Philip > Well I use Thunderbird as well for regular communication except for sending patches. The kernel documentation has also some words about Thunderbird https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/email-clients.txt Given so many steps, I also configured git send-email, which makes sure that patches are uncorrupted. For gmail add these lines to your ~/.gitconfig [sendemail] from = Your Name <emailaddress@xxxxxxxxx> smtpserver = /usr/bin/msmtp smtpuser = emailaddress smtpencryption = tls chainreplyto = false confirm = auto Then you'd need to have msmtp installed and have the following in the file ~/.msmtprc # Example for a user configuration file # Set default values for all following accounts. defaults tls on tls_trust_file /usr/share/ncat/ca-bundle.crt logfile ~/.msmtp.log # My email service account gmail host smtp.gmail.com port 587 from emailaddress@xxxxxxxxx auth on user emailaddress@xxxxxxxxx password mysecret account default : gmail I think it would also work without having git relying on msmtp by now, but I'd be too lazy to change my existing working setup. Stefan
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