I would like to introduce restmail
(https://github.com/tonymet/restmail) and gauge community interest in
packaging it for Debian.  It's a useful tool for debian maintainers &
developers for sending email (e.g., via bts, git send-email, mutt)
that is ready for use today.

restmail is a sendmail-compatible CLI that sends email via Gmail &
Outlook using official REST APIs, requiring minimal OAuth permission
scope (no read access).  restmail also preserves newline formatting
for sensitive git patches (which are usually broken during copy-paste
into web email clients).

restmail is useful with `bts` and `git send-email` for sending
text-format emails via your existing cloud email without smtp or
proxies.

For example,
❯ cat ~/.devscripts
BTS_SENDMAIL_COMMAND="/home/USERNAME/go/bin/restmail -t"

Packaging is currently in preparation.

Repository: https://github.com/tonymet/restmail

restmail is available for installation via binary packages on GitHub
or by using `go install` of the source.

Regards,
Anthony Metzidis

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