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 737 <h1>
 738 git-send-email(1) Manual Page
 739 </h1>
 740 <h2>NAME</h2>
 741 <div class="sectionbody">
 742 <p>git-send-email -
 743    Send a collection of patches as emails
 744 </p>
 745 </div>
 746 </div>
 747 <div id="content">
 748 <div class="sect1">
 749 <h2 id="_synopsis">SYNOPSIS</h2>
 750 <div class="sectionbody">
 751 <div class="verseblock">
 752 <pre class="content"><em>git send-email</em> [&lt;options&gt;] &lt;file|directory&gt;&#8230;
 753 <em>git send-email</em> [&lt;options&gt;] &lt;format-patch options&gt;
 754 <em>git send-email</em> --dump-aliases</pre>
 755 <div class="attribution">
 756 </div></div>
 757 </div>
 758 </div>
 759 <div class="sect1">
 760 <h2 id="_description">DESCRIPTION</h2>
 761 <div class="sectionbody">
 762 <div class="paragraph"><p>Takes the patches given on the command line and emails them out.
 763 Patches can be specified as files, directories (which will send all
 764 files in the directory), or directly as a revision list.  In the
 765 last case, any format accepted by <a href="git-format-patch.html">git-format-patch(1)</a> can
 766 be passed to git send-email, as well as options understood by
 767 <a href="git-format-patch.html">git-format-patch(1)</a>.</p></div>
 768 <div class="paragraph"><p>The header of the email is configurable via command-line options.  If not
 769 specified on the command line, the user will be prompted with a ReadLine
 770 enabled interface to provide the necessary information.</p></div>
 771 <div class="paragraph"><p>There are two formats accepted for patch files:</p></div>
 772 <div class="olist arabic"><ol class="arabic">
 773 <li>
 774 <p>
 775 mbox format files
 776 </p>
 777 <div class="paragraph"><p>This is what <a href="git-format-patch.html">git-format-patch(1)</a> generates.  Most headers and MIME
 778 formatting are ignored.</p></div>
 779 </li>
 780 <li>
 781 <p>
 782 The original format used by Greg Kroah-Hartman&#8217;s <em>send_lots_of_email.pl</em>
 783    script
 784 </p>
 785 <div class="paragraph"><p>This format expects the first line of the file to contain the "Cc:" value
 786 and the "Subject:" of the message as the second line.</p></div>
 787 </li>
 788 </ol></div>
 789 </div>
 790 </div>
 791 <div class="sect1">
 792 <h2 id="_options">OPTIONS</h2>
 793 <div class="sectionbody">
 794 <div class="sect2">
 795 <h3 id="_composing">Composing</h3>
 796 <div class="dlist"><dl>
 797 <dt class="hdlist1">
 798 --annotate
 799 </dt>
 800 <dd>
 801 <p>
 802         Review and edit each patch you&#8217;re about to send. Default is the value
 803         of <code>sendemail.annotate</code>. See the CONFIGURATION section for
 804         <code>sendemail.multiEdit</code>.
 805 </p>
 806 </dd>
 807 <dt class="hdlist1">
 808 --bcc=&lt;address&gt;,&#8230;
 809 </dt>
 810 <dd>
 811 <p>
 812         Specify a "Bcc:" value for each email. Default is the value of
 813         <code>sendemail.bcc</code>.
 814 </p>
 815 <div class="paragraph"><p>This option may be specified multiple times.</p></div>
 816 </dd>
 817 <dt class="hdlist1">
 818 --cc=&lt;address&gt;,&#8230;
 819 </dt>
 820 <dd>
 821 <p>
 822         Specify a starting "Cc:" value for each email.
 823         Default is the value of <code>sendemail.cc</code>.
 824 </p>
 825 <div class="paragraph"><p>This option may be specified multiple times.</p></div>
 826 </dd>
 827 <dt class="hdlist1">
 828 --compose
 829 </dt>
 830 <dd>
 831 <p>
 832         Invoke a text editor (see GIT_EDITOR in <a href="git-var.html">git-var(1)</a>)
 833         to edit an introductory message for the patch series.
 834 </p>
 835 <div class="paragraph"><p>When <code>--compose</code> is used, git send-email will use the From, Subject, and
 836 In-Reply-To headers specified in the message. If the body of the message
 837 (what you type after the headers and a blank line) only contains blank
 838 (or Git: prefixed) lines, the summary won&#8217;t be sent, but From, Subject,
 839 and In-Reply-To headers will be used unless they are removed.</p></div>
 840 <div class="paragraph"><p>Missing From or In-Reply-To headers will be prompted for.</p></div>
 841 <div class="paragraph"><p>See the CONFIGURATION section for <code>sendemail.multiEdit</code>.</p></div>
 842 </dd>
 843 <dt class="hdlist1">
 844 --from=&lt;address&gt;
 845 </dt>
 846 <dd>
 847 <p>
 848         Specify the sender of the emails.  If not specified on the command line,
 849         the value of the <code>sendemail.from</code> configuration option is used.  If
 850         neither the command-line option nor <code>sendemail.from</code> are set, then the
 851         user will be prompted for the value.  The default for the prompt will be
 852         the value of GIT_AUTHOR_IDENT, or GIT_COMMITTER_IDENT if that is not
 853         set, as returned by "git var -l".
 854 </p>
 855 </dd>
 856 <dt class="hdlist1">
 857 --reply-to=&lt;address&gt;
 858 </dt>
 859 <dd>
 860 <p>
 861         Specify the address where replies from recipients should go to.
 862         Use this if replies to messages should go to another address than what
 863         is specified with the --from parameter.
 864 </p>
 865 </dd>
 866 <dt class="hdlist1">
 867 --in-reply-to=&lt;identifier&gt;
 868 </dt>
 869 <dd>
 870 <p>
 871         Make the first mail (or all the mails with <code>--no-thread</code>) appear as a
 872         reply to the given Message-Id, which avoids breaking threads to
 873         provide a new patch series.
 874         The second and subsequent emails will be sent as replies according to
 875         the <code>--[no-]chain-reply-to</code> setting.
 876 </p>
 877 <div class="paragraph"><p>So for example when <code>--thread</code> and <code>--no-chain-reply-to</code> are specified, the
 878 second and subsequent patches will be replies to the first one like in the
 879 illustration below where <code>[PATCH v2 0/3]</code> is in reply to <code>[PATCH 0/2]</code>:</p></div>
 880 <div class="literalblock">
 881 <div class="content">
 882 <pre><code>[PATCH 0/2] Here is what I did...
 883   [PATCH 1/2] Clean up and tests
 884   [PATCH 2/2] Implementation
 885   [PATCH v2 0/3] Here is a reroll
 886     [PATCH v2 1/3] Clean up
 887     [PATCH v2 2/3] New tests
 888     [PATCH v2 3/3] Implementation</code></pre>
 889 </div></div>
 890 <div class="paragraph"><p>Only necessary if --compose is also set.  If --compose
 891 is not set, this will be prompted for.</p></div>
 892 </dd>
 893 <dt class="hdlist1">
 894 --subject=&lt;string&gt;
 895 </dt>
 896 <dd>
 897 <p>
 898         Specify the initial subject of the email thread.
 899         Only necessary if --compose is also set.  If --compose
 900         is not set, this will be prompted for.
 901 </p>
 902 </dd>
 903 <dt class="hdlist1">
 904 --to=&lt;address&gt;,&#8230;
 905 </dt>
 906 <dd>
 907 <p>
 908         Specify the primary recipient of the emails generated. Generally, this
 909         will be the upstream maintainer of the project involved. Default is the
 910         value of the <code>sendemail.to</code> configuration value; if that is unspecified,
 911         and --to-cmd is not specified, this will be prompted for.
 912 </p>
 913 <div class="paragraph"><p>This option may be specified multiple times.</p></div>
 914 </dd>
 915 <dt class="hdlist1">
 916 --8bit-encoding=&lt;encoding&gt;
 917 </dt>
 918 <dd>
 919 <p>
 920         When encountering a non-ASCII message or subject that does not
 921         declare its encoding, add headers/quoting to indicate it is
 922         encoded in &lt;encoding&gt;.  Default is the value of the
 923         <em>sendemail.assume8bitEncoding</em>; if that is unspecified, this
 924         will be prompted for if any non-ASCII files are encountered.
 925 </p>
 926 <div class="paragraph"><p>Note that no attempts whatsoever are made to validate the encoding.</p></div>
 927 </dd>
 928 <dt class="hdlist1">
 929 --compose-encoding=&lt;encoding&gt;
 930 </dt>
 931 <dd>
 932 <p>
 933         Specify encoding of compose message. Default is the value of the
 934         <em>sendemail.composeencoding</em>; if that is unspecified, UTF-8 is assumed.
 935 </p>
 936 </dd>
 937 <dt class="hdlist1">
 938 --transfer-encoding=(7bit|8bit|quoted-printable|base64|auto)
 939 </dt>
 940 <dd>
 941 <p>
 942         Specify the transfer encoding to be used to send the message over SMTP.
 943         7bit will fail upon encountering a non-ASCII message.  quoted-printable
 944         can be useful when the repository contains files that contain carriage
 945         returns, but makes the raw patch email file (as saved from a MUA) much
 946         harder to inspect manually.  base64 is even more fool proof, but also
 947         even more opaque.  auto will use 8bit when possible, and quoted-printable
 948         otherwise.
 949 </p>
 950 <div class="paragraph"><p>Default is the value of the <code>sendemail.transferEncoding</code> configuration
 951 value; if that is unspecified, default to <code>auto</code>.</p></div>
 952 </dd>
 953 <dt class="hdlist1">
 954 --xmailer
 955 </dt>
 956 <dt class="hdlist1">
 957 --no-xmailer
 958 </dt>
 959 <dd>
 960 <p>
 961         Add (or prevent adding) the "X-Mailer:" header.  By default,
 962         the header is added, but it can be turned off by setting the
 963         <code>sendemail.xmailer</code> configuration variable to <code>false</code>.
 964 </p>
 965 </dd>
 966 </dl></div>
 967 </div>
 968 <div class="sect2">
 969 <h3 id="_sending">Sending</h3>
 970 <div class="dlist"><dl>
 971 <dt class="hdlist1">
 972 --envelope-sender=&lt;address&gt;
 973 </dt>
 974 <dd>
 975 <p>
 976         Specify the envelope sender used to send the emails.
 977         This is useful if your default address is not the address that is
 978         subscribed to a list. In order to use the <em>From</em> address, set the
 979         value to "auto". If you use the sendmail binary, you must have
 980         suitable privileges for the -f parameter.  Default is the value of the
 981         <code>sendemail.envelopeSender</code> configuration variable; if that is
 982         unspecified, choosing the envelope sender is left to your MTA.
 983 </p>
 984 </dd>
 985 <dt class="hdlist1">
 986 --sendmail-cmd=&lt;command&gt;
 987 </dt>
 988 <dd>
 989 <p>
 990         Specify a command to run to send the email. The command should
 991         be sendmail-like; specifically, it must support the <code>-i</code> option.
 992         The command will be executed in the shell if necessary.  Default
 993         is the value of <code>sendemail.sendmailcmd</code>.  If unspecified, and if
 994         --smtp-server is also unspecified, git-send-email will search
 995         for <code>sendmail</code> in <code>/usr/sbin</code>, <code>/usr/lib</code> and $PATH.
 996 </p>
 997 </dd>
 998 <dt class="hdlist1">
 999 --smtp-encryption=&lt;encryption&gt;
1000 </dt>
1001 <dd>
1002 <p>
1003         Specify the encryption to use, either <em>ssl</em> or <em>tls</em>.  Any other
1004         value reverts to plain SMTP.  Default is the value of
1005         <code>sendemail.smtpEncryption</code>.
1006 </p>
1007 </dd>
1008 <dt class="hdlist1">
1009 --smtp-domain=&lt;FQDN&gt;
1010 </dt>
1011 <dd>
1012 <p>
1013         Specifies the Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) used in the
1014         HELO/EHLO command to the SMTP server.  Some servers require the
1015         FQDN to match your IP address.  If not set, git send-email attempts
1016         to determine your FQDN automatically.  Default is the value of
1017         <code>sendemail.smtpDomain</code>.
1018 </p>
1019 </dd>
1020 <dt class="hdlist1">
1021 --smtp-auth=&lt;mechanisms&gt;
1022 </dt>
1023 <dd>
1024 <p>
1025         Whitespace-separated list of allowed SMTP-AUTH mechanisms. This setting
1026         forces using only the listed mechanisms. Example:
1027 </p>
1028 <div class="listingblock">
1029 <div class="content">
1030 <pre><code>$ git send-email --smtp-auth="PLAIN LOGIN GSSAPI" ...</code></pre>
1031 </div></div>
1032 <div class="paragraph"><p>If at least one of the specified mechanisms matches the ones advertised by the
1033 SMTP server and if it is supported by the utilized SASL library, the mechanism
1034 is used for authentication. If neither <em>sendemail.smtpAuth</em> nor <code>--smtp-auth</code>
1035 is specified, all mechanisms supported by the SASL library can be used. The
1036 special value <em>none</em> maybe specified to completely disable authentication
1037 independently of <code>--smtp-user</code></p></div>
1038 </dd>
1039 <dt class="hdlist1">
1040 --smtp-pass[=&lt;password&gt;]
1041 </dt>
1042 <dd>
1043 <p>
1044         Password for SMTP-AUTH. The argument is optional: If no
1045         argument is specified, then the empty string is used as
1046         the password. Default is the value of <code>sendemail.smtpPass</code>,
1047         however <code>--smtp-pass</code> always overrides this value.
1048 </p>
1049 <div class="paragraph"><p>Furthermore, passwords need not be specified in configuration files
1050 or on the command line. If a username has been specified (with
1051 <code>--smtp-user</code> or a <code>sendemail.smtpUser</code>), but no password has been
1052 specified (with <code>--smtp-pass</code> or <code>sendemail.smtpPass</code>), then
1053 a password is obtained using <em>git-credential</em>.</p></div>
1054 </dd>
1055 <dt class="hdlist1">
1056 --no-smtp-auth
1057 </dt>
1058 <dd>
1059 <p>
1060         Disable SMTP authentication. Short hand for <code>--smtp-auth=none</code>
1061 </p>
1062 </dd>
1063 <dt class="hdlist1">
1064 --smtp-server=&lt;host&gt;
1065 </dt>
1066 <dd>
1067 <p>
1068         If set, specifies the outgoing SMTP server to use (e.g.
1069         <code>smtp.example.com</code> or a raw IP address).  If unspecified, and if
1070         <code>--sendmail-cmd</code> is also unspecified, the default is to search
1071         for <code>sendmail</code> in <code>/usr/sbin</code>, <code>/usr/lib</code> and $PATH if such a
1072         program is available, falling back to <code>localhost</code> otherwise.
1073 </p>
1074 <div class="paragraph"><p>For backward compatibility, this option can also specify a full pathname
1075 of a sendmail-like program instead; the program must support the <code>-i</code>
1076 option.  This method does not support passing arguments or using plain
1077 command names.  For those use cases, consider using <code>--sendmail-cmd</code>
1078 instead.</p></div>
1079 </dd>
1080 <dt class="hdlist1">
1081 --smtp-server-port=&lt;port&gt;
1082 </dt>
1083 <dd>
1084 <p>
1085         Specifies a port different from the default port (SMTP
1086         servers typically listen to smtp port 25, but may also listen to
1087         submission port 587, or the common SSL smtp port 465);
1088         symbolic port names (e.g. "submission" instead of 587)
1089         are also accepted. The port can also be set with the
1090         <code>sendemail.smtpServerPort</code> configuration variable.
1091 </p>
1092 </dd>
1093 <dt class="hdlist1">
1094 --smtp-server-option=&lt;option&gt;
1095 </dt>
1096 <dd>
1097 <p>
1098         If set, specifies the outgoing SMTP server option to use.
1099         Default value can be specified by the <code>sendemail.smtpServerOption</code>
1100         configuration option.
1101 </p>
1102 <div class="paragraph"><p>The --smtp-server-option option must be repeated for each option you want
1103 to pass to the server. Likewise, different lines in the configuration files
1104 must be used for each option.</p></div>
1105 </dd>
1106 <dt class="hdlist1">
1107 --smtp-ssl
1108 </dt>
1109 <dd>
1110 <p>
1111         Legacy alias for <em>--smtp-encryption ssl</em>.
1112 </p>
1113 </dd>
1114 <dt class="hdlist1">
1115 --smtp-ssl-cert-path
1116 </dt>
1117 <dd>
1118 <p>
1119         Path to a store of trusted CA certificates for SMTP SSL/TLS
1120         certificate validation (either a directory that has been processed
1121         by <em>c_rehash</em>, or a single file containing one or more PEM format
1122         certificates concatenated together: see verify(1) -CAfile and
1123         -CApath for more information on these). Set it to an empty string
1124         to disable certificate verification. Defaults to the value of the
1125         <code>sendemail.smtpsslcertpath</code> configuration variable, if set, or the
1126         backing SSL library&#8217;s compiled-in default otherwise (which should
1127         be the best choice on most platforms).
1128 </p>
1129 </dd>
1130 <dt class="hdlist1">
1131 --smtp-user=&lt;user&gt;
1132 </dt>
1133 <dd>
1134 <p>
1135         Username for SMTP-AUTH. Default is the value of <code>sendemail.smtpUser</code>;
1136         if a username is not specified (with <code>--smtp-user</code> or <code>sendemail.smtpUser</code>),
1137         then authentication is not attempted.
1138 </p>
1139 </dd>
1140 <dt class="hdlist1">
1141 --smtp-debug=0|1
1142 </dt>
1143 <dd>
1144 <p>
1145         Enable (1) or disable (0) debug output. If enabled, SMTP
1146         commands and replies will be printed. Useful to debug TLS
1147         connection and authentication problems.
1148 </p>
1149 </dd>
1150 <dt class="hdlist1">
1151 --batch-size=&lt;num&gt;
1152 </dt>
1153 <dd>
1154 <p>
1155         Some email servers (e.g. smtp.163.com) limit the number emails to be
1156         sent per session (connection) and this will lead to a failure when
1157         sending many messages.  With this option, send-email will disconnect after
1158         sending $&lt;num&gt; messages and wait for a few seconds (see --relogin-delay)
1159         and reconnect, to work around such a limit.  You may want to
1160         use some form of credential helper to avoid having to retype
1161         your password every time this happens.  Defaults to the
1162         <code>sendemail.smtpBatchSize</code> configuration variable.
1163 </p>
1164 </dd>
1165 <dt class="hdlist1">
1166 --relogin-delay=&lt;int&gt;
1167 </dt>
1168 <dd>
1169 <p>
1170         Waiting $&lt;int&gt; seconds before reconnecting to SMTP server. Used together
1171         with --batch-size option.  Defaults to the <code>sendemail.smtpReloginDelay</code>
1172         configuration variable.
1173 </p>
1174 </dd>
1175 </dl></div>
1176 </div>
1177 <div class="sect2">
1178 <h3 id="_automating">Automating</h3>
1179 <div class="dlist"><dl>
1180 <dt class="hdlist1">
1181 --no-[to|cc|bcc]
1182 </dt>
1183 <dd>
1184 <p>
1185         Clears any list of "To:", "Cc:", "Bcc:" addresses previously
1186         set via config.
1187 </p>
1188 </dd>
1189 <dt class="hdlist1">
1190 --no-identity
1191 </dt>
1192 <dd>
1193 <p>
1194         Clears the previously read value of <code>sendemail.identity</code> set
1195         via config, if any.
1196 </p>
1197 </dd>
1198 <dt class="hdlist1">
1199 --to-cmd=&lt;command&gt;
1200 </dt>
1201 <dd>
1202 <p>
1203         Specify a command to execute once per patch file which
1204         should generate patch file specific "To:" entries.
1205         Output of this command must be single email address per line.
1206         Default is the value of <em>sendemail.tocmd</em> configuration value.
1207 </p>
1208 </dd>
1209 <dt class="hdlist1">
1210 --cc-cmd=&lt;command&gt;
1211 </dt>
1212 <dd>
1213 <p>
1214         Specify a command to execute once per patch file which
1215         should generate patch file specific "Cc:" entries.
1216         Output of this command must be single email address per line.
1217         Default is the value of <code>sendemail.ccCmd</code> configuration value.
1218 </p>
1219 </dd>
1220 <dt class="hdlist1">
1221 --[no-]chain-reply-to
1222 </dt>
1223 <dd>
1224 <p>
1225         If this is set, each email will be sent as a reply to the previous
1226         email sent.  If disabled with "--no-chain-reply-to", all emails after
1227         the first will be sent as replies to the first email sent.  When using
1228         this, it is recommended that the first file given be an overview of the
1229         entire patch series. Disabled by default, but the <code>sendemail.chainReplyTo</code>
1230         configuration variable can be used to enable it.
1231 </p>
1232 </dd>
1233 <dt class="hdlist1">
1234 --identity=&lt;identity&gt;
1235 </dt>
1236 <dd>
1237 <p>
1238         A configuration identity. When given, causes values in the
1239         <em>sendemail.&lt;identity&gt;</em> subsection to take precedence over
1240         values in the <em>sendemail</em> section. The default identity is
1241         the value of <code>sendemail.identity</code>.
1242 </p>
1243 </dd>
1244 <dt class="hdlist1">
1245 --[no-]signed-off-by-cc
1246 </dt>
1247 <dd>
1248 <p>
1249         If this is set, add emails found in the <code>Signed-off-by</code> trailer or Cc: lines to the
1250         cc list. Default is the value of <code>sendemail.signedoffbycc</code> configuration
1251         value; if that is unspecified, default to --signed-off-by-cc.
1252 </p>
1253 </dd>
1254 <dt class="hdlist1">
1255 --[no-]cc-cover
1256 </dt>
1257 <dd>
1258 <p>
1259         If this is set, emails found in Cc: headers in the first patch of
1260         the series (typically the cover letter) are added to the cc list
1261         for each email set. Default is the value of <em>sendemail.cccover</em>
1262         configuration value; if that is unspecified, default to --no-cc-cover.
1263 </p>
1264 </dd>
1265 <dt class="hdlist1">
1266 --[no-]to-cover
1267 </dt>
1268 <dd>
1269 <p>
1270         If this is set, emails found in To: headers in the first patch of
1271         the series (typically the cover letter) are added to the to list
1272         for each email set. Default is the value of <em>sendemail.tocover</em>
1273         configuration value; if that is unspecified, default to --no-to-cover.
1274 </p>
1275 </dd>
1276 <dt class="hdlist1">
1277 --suppress-cc=&lt;category&gt;
1278 </dt>
1279 <dd>
1280 <p>
1281         Specify an additional category of recipients to suppress the
1282         auto-cc of:
1283 </p>
1284 <div class="openblock">
1285 <div class="content">
1286 <div class="ulist"><ul>
1287 <li>
1288 <p>
1289 <em>author</em> will avoid including the patch author.
1290 </p>
1291 </li>
1292 <li>
1293 <p>
1294 <em>self</em> will avoid including the sender.
1295 </p>
1296 </li>
1297 <li>
1298 <p>
1299 <em>cc</em> will avoid including anyone mentioned in Cc lines in the patch header
1300   except for self (use <em>self</em> for that).
1301 </p>
1302 </li>
1303 <li>
1304 <p>
1305 <em>bodycc</em> will avoid including anyone mentioned in Cc lines in the
1306   patch body (commit message) except for self (use <em>self</em> for that).
1307 </p>
1308 </li>
1309 <li>
1310 <p>
1311 <em>sob</em> will avoid including anyone mentioned in the Signed-off-by trailers except
1312   for self (use <em>self</em> for that).
1313 </p>
1314 </li>
1315 <li>
1316 <p>
1317 <em>misc-by</em> will avoid including anyone mentioned in Acked-by,
1318   Reviewed-by, Tested-by and other "-by" lines in the patch body,
1319   except Signed-off-by (use <em>sob</em> for that).
1320 </p>
1321 </li>
1322 <li>
1323 <p>
1324 <em>cccmd</em> will avoid running the --cc-cmd.
1325 </p>
1326 </li>
1327 <li>
1328 <p>
1329 <em>body</em> is equivalent to <em>sob</em> + <em>bodycc</em> + <em>misc-by</em>.
1330 </p>
1331 </li>
1332 <li>
1333 <p>
1334 <em>all</em> will suppress all auto cc values.
1335 </p>
1336 </li>
1337 </ul></div>
1338 </div></div>
1339 <div class="paragraph"><p>Default is the value of <code>sendemail.suppresscc</code> configuration value; if
1340 that is unspecified, default to <em>self</em> if --suppress-from is
1341 specified, as well as <em>body</em> if --no-signed-off-cc is specified.</p></div>
1342 </dd>
1343 <dt class="hdlist1">
1344 --[no-]suppress-from
1345 </dt>
1346 <dd>
1347 <p>
1348         If this is set, do not add the From: address to the cc: list.
1349         Default is the value of <code>sendemail.suppressFrom</code> configuration
1350         value; if that is unspecified, default to --no-suppress-from.
1351 </p>
1352 </dd>
1353 <dt class="hdlist1">
1354 --[no-]thread
1355 </dt>
1356 <dd>
1357 <p>
1358         If this is set, the In-Reply-To and References headers will be
1359         added to each email sent.  Whether each mail refers to the
1360         previous email (<code>deep</code> threading per <em>git format-patch</em>
1361         wording) or to the first email (<code>shallow</code> threading) is
1362         governed by "--[no-]chain-reply-to".
1363 </p>
1364 <div class="paragraph"><p>If disabled with "--no-thread", those headers will not be added
1365 (unless specified with --in-reply-to).  Default is the value of the
1366 <code>sendemail.thread</code> configuration value; if that is unspecified,
1367 default to --thread.</p></div>
1368 <div class="paragraph"><p>It is up to the user to ensure that no In-Reply-To header already
1369 exists when <em>git send-email</em> is asked to add it (especially note that
1370 <em>git format-patch</em> can be configured to do the threading itself).
1371 Failure to do so may not produce the expected result in the
1372 recipient&#8217;s MUA.</p></div>
1373 </dd>
1374 </dl></div>
1375 </div>
1376 <div class="sect2">
1377 <h3 id="_administering">Administering</h3>
1378 <div class="dlist"><dl>
1379 <dt class="hdlist1">
1380 --confirm=&lt;mode&gt;
1381 </dt>
1382 <dd>
1383 <p>
1384         Confirm just before sending:
1385 </p>
1386 <div class="openblock">
1387 <div class="content">
1388 <div class="ulist"><ul>
1389 <li>
1390 <p>
1391 <em>always</em> will always confirm before sending
1392 </p>
1393 </li>
1394 <li>
1395 <p>
1396 <em>never</em> will never confirm before sending
1397 </p>
1398 </li>
1399 <li>
1400 <p>
1401 <em>cc</em> will confirm before sending when send-email has automatically
1402   added addresses from the patch to the Cc list
1403 </p>
1404 </li>
1405 <li>
1406 <p>
1407 <em>compose</em> will confirm before sending the first message when using --compose.
1408 </p>
1409 </li>
1410 <li>
1411 <p>
1412 <em>auto</em> is equivalent to <em>cc</em> + <em>compose</em>
1413 </p>
1414 </li>
1415 </ul></div>
1416 </div></div>
1417 <div class="paragraph"><p>Default is the value of <code>sendemail.confirm</code> configuration value; if that
1418 is unspecified, default to <em>auto</em> unless any of the suppress options
1419 have been specified, in which case default to <em>compose</em>.</p></div>
1420 </dd>
1421 <dt class="hdlist1">
1422 --dry-run
1423 </dt>
1424 <dd>
1425 <p>
1426         Do everything except actually send the emails.
1427 </p>
1428 </dd>
1429 <dt class="hdlist1">
1430 --[no-]format-patch
1431 </dt>
1432 <dd>
1433 <p>
1434         When an argument may be understood either as a reference or as a file name,
1435         choose to understand it as a format-patch argument (<code>--format-patch</code>)
1436         or as a file name (<code>--no-format-patch</code>). By default, when such a conflict
1437         occurs, git send-email will fail.
1438 </p>
1439 </dd>
1440 <dt class="hdlist1">
1441 --quiet
1442 </dt>
1443 <dd>
1444 <p>
1445         Make git-send-email less verbose.  One line per email should be
1446         all that is output.
1447 </p>
1448 </dd>
1449 <dt class="hdlist1">
1450 --[no-]validate
1451 </dt>
1452 <dd>
1453 <p>
1454         Perform sanity checks on patches.
1455         Currently, validation means the following:
1456 </p>
1457 <div class="openblock">
1458 <div class="content">
1459 <div class="ulist"><ul>
1460 <li>
1461 <p>
1462 Invoke the sendemail-validate hook if present (see <a href="githooks.html">githooks(5)</a>).
1463 </p>
1464 </li>
1465 <li>
1466 <p>
1467 Warn of patches that contain lines longer than
1468                         998 characters unless a suitable transfer encoding
1469                         (<em>auto</em>, <em>base64</em>, or <em>quoted-printable</em>) is used;
1470                         this is due to SMTP limits as described by
1471                         <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5322.txt">http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5322.txt</a>.
1472 </p>
1473 </li>
1474 </ul></div>
1475 </div></div>
1476 <div class="paragraph"><p>Default is the value of <code>sendemail.validate</code>; if this is not set,
1477 default to <code>--validate</code>.</p></div>
1478 </dd>
1479 <dt class="hdlist1">
1480 --force
1481 </dt>
1482 <dd>
1483 <p>
1484         Send emails even if safety checks would prevent it.
1485 </p>
1486 </dd>
1487 </dl></div>
1488 </div>
1489 <div class="sect2">
1490 <h3 id="_information">Information</h3>
1491 <div class="dlist"><dl>
1492 <dt class="hdlist1">
1493 --dump-aliases
1494 </dt>
1495 <dd>
1496 <p>
1497         Instead of the normal operation, dump the shorthand alias names from
1498         the configured alias file(s), one per line in alphabetical order. Note,
1499         this only includes the alias name and not its expanded email addresses.
1500         See <em>sendemail.aliasesfile</em> for more information about aliases.
1501 </p>
1502 </dd>
1503 </dl></div>
1504 </div>
1505 </div>
1506 </div>
1507 <div class="sect1">
1508 <h2 id="_configuration">CONFIGURATION</h2>
1509 <div class="sectionbody">
1510 <div class="paragraph"><p>Everything below this line in this section is selectively included
1511 from the <a href="git-config.html">git-config(1)</a> documentation. The content is the same
1512 as what&#8217;s found there:</p></div>
1513 <div class="dlist"><dl>
1514 <dt class="hdlist1">
1515 sendemail.identity
1516 </dt>
1517 <dd>
1518 <p>
1519         A configuration identity. When given, causes values in the
1520         <em>sendemail.&lt;identity&gt;</em> subsection to take precedence over
1521         values in the <em>sendemail</em> section. The default identity is
1522         the value of <code>sendemail.identity</code>.
1523 </p>
1524 </dd>
1525 <dt class="hdlist1">
1526 sendemail.smtpEncryption
1527 </dt>
1528 <dd>
1529 <p>
1530         See <a href="git-send-email.html">git-send-email(1)</a> for description.  Note that this
1531         setting is not subject to the <em>identity</em> mechanism.
1532 </p>
1533 </dd>
1534 <dt class="hdlist1">
1535 sendemail.smtpsslcertpath
1536 </dt>
1537 <dd>
1538 <p>
1539         Path to ca-certificates (either a directory or a single file).
1540         Set it to an empty string to disable certificate verification.
1541 </p>
1542 </dd>
1543 <dt class="hdlist1">
1544 sendemail.&lt;identity&gt;.*
1545 </dt>
1546 <dd>
1547 <p>
1548         Identity-specific versions of the <em>sendemail.*</em> parameters
1549         found below, taking precedence over those when this
1550         identity is selected, through either the command-line or
1551         <code>sendemail.identity</code>.
1552 </p>
1553 </dd>
1554 <dt class="hdlist1">
1555 sendemail.multiEdit
1556 </dt>
1557 <dd>
1558 <p>
1559         If true (default), a single editor instance will be spawned to edit
1560         files you have to edit (patches when <code>--annotate</code> is used, and the
1561         summary when <code>--compose</code> is used). If false, files will be edited one
1562         after the other, spawning a new editor each time.
1563 </p>
1564 </dd>
1565 <dt class="hdlist1">
1566 sendemail.confirm
1567 </dt>
1568 <dd>
1569 <p>
1570         Sets the default for whether to confirm before sending. Must be
1571         one of <em>always</em>, <em>never</em>, <em>cc</em>, <em>compose</em>, or <em>auto</em>. See <code>--confirm</code>
1572         in the <a href="git-send-email.html">git-send-email(1)</a> documentation for the meaning of these
1573         values.
1574 </p>
1575 </dd>
1576 <dt class="hdlist1">
1577 sendemail.aliasesFile
1578 </dt>
1579 <dd>
1580 <p>
1581         To avoid typing long email addresses, point this to one or more
1582         email aliases files.  You must also supply <code>sendemail.aliasFileType</code>.
1583 </p>
1584 </dd>
1585 <dt class="hdlist1">
1586 sendemail.aliasFileType
1587 </dt>
1588 <dd>
1589 <p>
1590         Format of the file(s) specified in sendemail.aliasesFile. Must be
1591         one of <em>mutt</em>, <em>mailrc</em>, <em>pine</em>, <em>elm</em>, or <em>gnus</em>, or <em>sendmail</em>.
1592 </p>
1593 <div class="paragraph"><p>What an alias file in each format looks like can be found in
1594 the documentation of the email program of the same name. The
1595 differences and limitations from the standard formats are
1596 described below:</p></div>
1597 <div class="openblock">
1598 <div class="content">
1599 <div class="dlist"><dl>
1600 <dt class="hdlist1">
1601 sendmail
1602 </dt>
1603 <dd>
1604 <div class="ulist"><ul>
1605 <li>
1606 <p>
1607 Quoted aliases and quoted addresses are not supported: lines that
1608         contain a <code>"</code> symbol are ignored.
1609 </p>
1610 </li>
1611 <li>
1612 <p>
1613 Redirection to a file (<code>/path/name</code>) or pipe (<code>|command</code>) is not
1614         supported.
1615 </p>
1616 </li>
1617 <li>
1618 <p>
1619 File inclusion (<code>:include: /path/name</code>) is not supported.
1620 </p>
1621 </li>
1622 <li>
1623 <p>
1624 Warnings are printed on the standard error output for any
1625         explicitly unsupported constructs, and any other lines that are not
1626         recognized by the parser.
1627 </p>
1628 </li>
1629 </ul></div>
1630 </dd>
1631 </dl></div>
1632 </div></div>
1633 </dd>
1634 <dt class="hdlist1">
1635 sendemail.annotate
1636 </dt>
1637 <dt class="hdlist1">
1638 sendemail.bcc
1639 </dt>
1640 <dt class="hdlist1">
1641 sendemail.cc
1642 </dt>
1643 <dt class="hdlist1">
1644 sendemail.ccCmd
1645 </dt>
1646 <dt class="hdlist1">
1647 sendemail.chainReplyTo
1648 </dt>
1649 <dt class="hdlist1">
1650 sendemail.envelopeSender
1651 </dt>
1652 <dt class="hdlist1">
1653 sendemail.from
1654 </dt>
1655 <dt class="hdlist1">
1656 sendemail.signedoffbycc
1657 </dt>
1658 <dt class="hdlist1">
1659 sendemail.smtpPass
1660 </dt>
1661 <dt class="hdlist1">
1662 sendemail.suppresscc
1663 </dt>
1664 <dt class="hdlist1">
1665 sendemail.suppressFrom
1666 </dt>
1667 <dt class="hdlist1">
1668 sendemail.to
1669 </dt>
1670 <dt class="hdlist1">
1671 sendemail.tocmd
1672 </dt>
1673 <dt class="hdlist1">
1674 sendemail.smtpDomain
1675 </dt>
1676 <dt class="hdlist1">
1677 sendemail.smtpServer
1678 </dt>
1679 <dt class="hdlist1">
1680 sendemail.smtpServerPort
1681 </dt>
1682 <dt class="hdlist1">
1683 sendemail.smtpServerOption
1684 </dt>
1685 <dt class="hdlist1">
1686 sendemail.smtpUser
1687 </dt>
1688 <dt class="hdlist1">
1689 sendemail.thread
1690 </dt>
1691 <dt class="hdlist1">
1692 sendemail.transferEncoding
1693 </dt>
1694 <dt class="hdlist1">
1695 sendemail.validate
1696 </dt>
1697 <dt class="hdlist1">
1698 sendemail.xmailer
1699 </dt>
1700 <dd>
1701 <p>
1702         These configuration variables all provide a default for
1703         <a href="git-send-email.html">git-send-email(1)</a> command-line options. See its
1704         documentation for details.
1705 </p>
1706 </dd>
1707 <dt class="hdlist1">
1708 sendemail.signedoffcc (deprecated)
1709 </dt>
1710 <dd>
1711 <p>
1712         Deprecated alias for <code>sendemail.signedoffbycc</code>.
1713 </p>
1714 </dd>
1715 <dt class="hdlist1">
1716 sendemail.smtpBatchSize
1717 </dt>
1718 <dd>
1719 <p>
1720         Number of messages to be sent per connection, after that a relogin
1721         will happen.  If the value is 0 or undefined, send all messages in
1722         one connection.
1723         See also the <code>--batch-size</code> option of <a href="git-send-email.html">git-send-email(1)</a>.
1724 </p>
1725 </dd>
1726 <dt class="hdlist1">
1727 sendemail.smtpReloginDelay
1728 </dt>
1729 <dd>
1730 <p>
1731         Seconds wait before reconnecting to smtp server.
1732         See also the <code>--relogin-delay</code> option of <a href="git-send-email.html">git-send-email(1)</a>.
1733 </p>
1734 </dd>
1735 <dt class="hdlist1">
1736 sendemail.forbidSendmailVariables
1737 </dt>
1738 <dd>
1739 <p>
1740         To avoid common misconfiguration mistakes, <a href="git-send-email.html">git-send-email(1)</a>
1741         will abort with a warning if any configuration options for "sendmail"
1742         exist. Set this variable to bypass the check.
1743 </p>
1744 </dd>
1745 </dl></div>
1746 </div>
1747 </div>
1748 <div class="sect1">
1749 <h2 id="_examples">EXAMPLES</h2>
1750 <div class="sectionbody">
1751 <div class="sect2">
1752 <h3 id="_use_gmail_as_the_smtp_server">Use gmail as the smtp server</h3>
1753 <div class="paragraph"><p>To use <em>git send-email</em> to send your patches through the GMail SMTP server,
1754 edit ~/.gitconfig to specify your account settings:</p></div>
1755 <div class="listingblock">
1756 <div class="content">
1757 <pre><code>[sendemail]
1758         smtpEncryption = tls
1759         smtpServer = smtp.gmail.com
1760         smtpUser = yourname@gmail.com
1761         smtpServerPort = 587</code></pre>
1762 </div></div>
1763 <div class="paragraph"><p>If you have multi-factor authentication set up on your Gmail account, you will
1764 need to generate an app-specific password for use with <em>git send-email</em>. Visit
1765 <a href="https://security.google.com/settings/security/apppasswords">https://security.google.com/settings/security/apppasswords</a> to create it.</p></div>
1766 <div class="paragraph"><p>If you do not have multi-factor authentication set up on your Gmail account,
1767 you will need to allow less secure app access. Visit
1768 <a href="https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps">https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps</a> to enable it.</p></div>
1769 <div class="paragraph"><p>Once your commits are ready to be sent to the mailing list, run the
1770 following commands:</p></div>
1771 <div class="literalblock">
1772 <div class="content">
1773 <pre><code>$ git format-patch --cover-letter -M origin/master -o outgoing/
1774 $ edit outgoing/0000-*
1775 $ git send-email outgoing/*</code></pre>
1776 </div></div>
1777 <div class="paragraph"><p>The first time you run it, you will be prompted for your credentials.  Enter the
1778 app-specific or your regular password as appropriate.  If you have credential
1779 helper configured (see <a href="git-credential.html">git-credential(1)</a>), the password will be saved in
1780 the credential store so you won&#8217;t have to type it the next time.</p></div>
1781 <div class="paragraph"><p>Note: the following core Perl modules that may be installed with your
1782 distribution of Perl are required:
1783 MIME::Base64, MIME::QuotedPrint, Net::Domain and Net::SMTP.
1784 These additional Perl modules are also required:
1785 Authen::SASL and Mail::Address.</p></div>
1786 </div>
1787 </div>
1788 </div>
1789 <div class="sect1">
1790 <h2 id="_see_also">SEE ALSO</h2>
1791 <div class="sectionbody">
1792 <div class="paragraph"><p><a href="git-format-patch.html">git-format-patch(1)</a>, <a href="git-imap-send.html">git-imap-send(1)</a>, mbox(5)</p></div>
1793 </div>
1794 </div>
1795 <div class="sect1">
1796 <h2 id="_git">GIT</h2>
1797 <div class="sectionbody">
1798 <div class="paragraph"><p>Part of the <a href="git.html">git(1)</a> suite</p></div>
1799 </div>
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