From: Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@xxxxxxxx> `sendmailCmd` is a configuration option in `git-send-email` that allows users to send emails using an external application that supports sendmail-like commands. This ability has been very useful to support proprietary email APIs without modifying the `git-send-email` codebase. It is also useful for users who prefer to use another SMTP client instead of the SMTP perl library used by `git-send-email`. This commit adds a paragraph to the documentation explaining this option. Signed-off-by: Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@xxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-send-email.adoc | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.adoc b/Documentation/git-send-email.adoc index b31145901c..6556f949a1 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-send-email.adoc +++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.adoc @@ -619,6 +619,35 @@ These additional Perl modules are also required: https://metacpan.org/pod/Authen::SASL[Authen::SASL] and https://metacpan.org/pod/Mail::Address[Mail::Address]. +Exploiting the `sendmailCmd` option of `git send-email` +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Apart from sending emails via an SMTP server, `git send-email` can also send +emails through any application that supports sendmail-like commands. You can +read documentation of `--sendmail-cmd=<command>` above for more information. +This ability can be very useful if you want to use another application as an +SMTP client for `git send-email`, or if your email provider uses proprietary +APIs instead of SMTP to send emails. + +As an example, lets see how to configure https://marlam.de/msmtp/[msmtp], a +popular SMTP client found in many Linux distributions. Edit `~/.gitconfig` +to instruct `git-send-email` to use it for sending emails. + +---- +[sendemail] + sendmailCmd = /usr/bin/msmtp # Change this to the path where msmtp is installed +---- + +Links of a few such community maintained helpers are: + + - https://marlam.de/msmtp/[msmtp] + (popular SMTP client with many features, available for Linux and macOS) + + - https://github.com/AdityaGarg8/git-credential-email[git-protonmail] + (cross platform client that can send emails using the ProtonMail API) + + - https://github.com/AdityaGarg8/git-credential-email[git-msgraph] + (cross platform client that can send emails using the Microsoft Graph API) SEE ALSO -------- -- 2.50.0.windows.1
