Steffen Nurpmeso <stef...@sdaoden.eu> writes:

> This is only the git built-in variant, but git-send-email can make
> use of external tools, and i, in fact, _never_ (since before 2015)
> used a different variant (for real).  The little MUA i maintain
> documents something like
>
>      [sendemail]
>      smtpserver = /usr/local/bin/s-nail
>      smtpserveroption = -t
>      #smtpserveroption = -Sexpandaddr
>      smtpserveroption = -Athe-account-you-need
>      ##
>      suppresscc = all
>      suppressfrom = false
>      assume8bitEncoding = UTF-8
>      #to = /tmp/OUT
>      confirm = always
>      chainreplyto = true
>      multiedit = false
>      thread = true
>      quiet = true
>      annotate = true
>
>    Newer git(1) versions (v2.33.0) added the option sendmailCmd.
>
> You could also "simply" send format-patch output with anything you
> wanted, including OpenBSD base tools (i presume .. but never tried
> it).

Thank you very much for your detailed response to my query! I did not
realise that we could use a local external tool with git-send-email. The
configuration with /usr/bin/s-nail looks like a neat approach---I'll try
it out.

Many thanks again!

-- 
Abhishek Chakravarti
abhis...@taranjali.org | Kolkata, IN
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