On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:20, Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@xxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxx>] > Emails will be sent from: Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@xxxxxxxxx> > Who should the emails be sent to? xenoterracide@xxxxxxxxx > Message-ID to be used as In-Reply-To for the first email? > xenoterracide@xxxxxxxxx > (mbox) Adding cc: Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@xxxxxxxxx> from line > 'From: Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@xxxxxxxxx>' > (sob) Adding cc: Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@xxxxxxxxx> from line > 'Signed-off-by: Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@xxxxxxxxx>' > postdrop: warning: unable to look up public/pickup: No such file or directory > OK. Log says: > Sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail -i xenoterracide@xxxxxxxxx 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@xxxxxxxxx -- 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