Without this, the value passed to sendmail would have an extra set of single quotes. At least exim's sendmail emulation would object to that: exim: bad -f address "'list-addr@xxxxxxxxxxx'": malformed address: ' \ may not follow 'list-addr@xxxxxxxxxxx error: hooks/post-receive exited with error code 1 Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- contrib/hooks/post-receive-email | 16 ++++++++++------ 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email b/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email index c589a39..1f88099 100644 --- a/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email +++ b/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email @@ -571,6 +571,15 @@ generate_delete_general_email() echo $LOGEND } +send_mail() +{ + if [ -n "$envelopesender" ]; then + /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -f "$envelopesender" + else + /usr/sbin/sendmail -t + fi +} + # ---------------------------- main() # --- Constants @@ -607,13 +616,8 @@ if [ -n "$1" -a -n "$2" -a -n "$3" ]; then # resend an email; they could redirect the output to sendmail themselves PAGER= generate_email $2 $3 $1 else - if [ -n "$envelopesender" ]; then - envelopesender="-f '$envelopesender'" - fi - while read oldrev newrev refname do - generate_email $oldrev $newrev $refname | - /usr/sbin/sendmail -t $envelopesender + generate_email $oldrev $newrev $refname | send_mail done fi -- 1.5.3.2.99.ge4b2-dirty - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html