This is configured to send via a gmail account git send-email --to-cover --cc-cover <patch-list> I See Attempt to reload IO/Socket/SSL.pm aborted. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Net/SMTP/SSL.pm line 6. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Net/SMTP/SSL.pm line 6. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/git-core/git-send-email line 1386. fatal: 'send-email' appears to be a git command, but we were not able to execute it. Maybe git-send-email is broken? Net/SMTP/SSL.pm v1.04 perl v5.26.0 Seen in git 2.11.1, 2.12.2, 2.13.0, 2.13.1 on Arch Linux