On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 11:32:35PM +0100, Bernd Edlinger wrote: > Oh, do I understand you right, that I can add a From: in the > *body* of the mail, and then the From: in the MIME header part > which I cannot change is ignored, so I can make you the author? Correct. (If you use "git send-email" it'll do this automatically.) e.g., trimmed from my workflow: git format-patch -n --to "$to" --cover-letter -o outgoing/ \ --subject-prefix "PATCH v$version" "$SHA" edit outgoing/0000-* git send-email --transfer-encoding=8bit --8bit-encoding=UTF-8 \ --from="$ME" --to="$to" --cc="$ME" --cc="...more..." outgoing/* -- Kees Cook