This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by W3Teal
I use Outlook as my Email client and sendas.email as my SMTP client because it doesn't work anymore for personal Outlook accounts.
This is how I edit the sendemail section in .gitconfig
[sendemail]
smtpserver = smtp.sendas.email
smtpuser = w3teal@hotmail.com
smtpencryption = STARTTLS
smtpserverport = 587
smtppass = xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I ran the command as stated on the git-send-email.io website
F:\>git clone https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/email-test-drive
Cloning into 'email-test-drive'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 7, done.
remote: Total 7 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 7 (from 1)
Receiving objects: 100% (7/7), done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (1/1), done.
F:\>cd email-test-drive
To create the w3teal file, I created it manually with the content:
"I'm about to try git send-email"
F:\email-test-drive>git add w3teal
F:\email-test-drive>git commit -m "Demonstrate that I can use git send-email"
[master bfdb367] Demonstrate that I can use git send-email
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
create mode 100644 w3teal
Then I ran the Send the patch command, but it kept asking "More" and then it didn't work. (The content is only 1 line)
F:\email-test-drive>git send-email --to="~sircmpwn/email-test-drive@lists.sr.ht" HEAD^
More?
More?
Unsuccessful stat on filename containing newline at C:/Program Files/Git/mingw64/libexec/git-core\git-send-email line 828.
Unsuccessful stat on filename containing newline at C:/Program Files/Git/mingw64/libexec/git-core\git-send-email line 836.
Unsuccessful stat on filename containing newline at C:/Program Files/Git/mingw64/libexec/git-core\git-send-email line 836.
fatal: ambiguous argument 'HEAD
': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'
format-patch -o /tmp/adkg7EWcIn HEAD
: command returned error: 128
I googled where the error was but there were no relevant questions, so I asked ChatGPT and I used the suggestion "Try HEAD~1 instead of HEAD^" and it seemed to work.
F:\email-test-drive>git send-email --to="~sircmpwn/email-test-drive@lists.sr.ht" HEAD~1
C:/Users/User/AppData/Local/Temp/y3oLfqnX5U/0001-Demonstrate-that-I-can-use-git-send-email.patch
(mbox) Adding cc: W3 Teal <w3teal@hotmail.com> from line 'From: W3 Teal <w3teal@hotmail.com>'
From: W3 Teal <w3teal@hotmail.com>
To: ~sircmpwn/email-test-drive@lists.sr.ht
Cc: W3 Teal <w3teal@hotmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] Demonstrate that I can use git send-email
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2025 10:36:27 +0700
Message-ID: <20250308033627.389-1-w3teal@hotmail.com>
X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.48.1.windows.1
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
The Cc list above has been expanded by additional
addresses found in the patch commit message. By default
send-email prompts before sending whenever this occurs.
This behavior is controlled by the sendemail.confirm
configuration setting.
For additional information, run 'git send-email --help'.
To retain the current behavior, but squelch this message,
run 'git config --global sendemail.confirm auto'.
Send this email? ([y]es|[n]o|[e]dit|[q]uit|[a]ll): y
After a long wait, what appeared next was:
Unable to initialize SMTP properly. Check config and use --smtp-debug. VALUES: server=smtp.sendas.email encryption=STARTTLS hello=localhost.localdomain port=587 at C:/Program Files/Git/mingw64/libexec/git-core\git-send-email line 1728, <FIN> line 1.
What is actually wrong? The configuration or should I use another email client?
This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by W3Teal
W3Teal | Sciencx (2025-03-08T04:28:15+00:00) How to use git-send-email correctly on Windows? What is the recommended email to use?. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2025/03/08/how-to-use-git-send-email-correctly-on-windows-what-is-the-recommended-email-to-use/
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