> What I was asking was just if there was a way to not use these default > strings. Forgive me but I'm somewhat perplexed as to why you want to change it. Is there a specific use-case where this is a problem or is it a personal preference? Maybe you have a good reason and my imagination isn't stretching that far. > Well, this would be surely nice. For now, I will just remove it by hand > or script something to do it before calling git-send-email. Here's a simples sed that changes Notes: to setoN: sed '/^---$/{N;N;/^---\n\nNotes:$/s@Notes:@setoN:@}'