What mailer to use with Gmail?

Konstantin Ryabitsev konstantin at linuxfoundation.org
Tue Aug 25 15:18:07 EDT 2020


On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 03:04:11PM -0400, Leam Hall wrote:
> Setting aside the desire to cuss as gmail, I'm having difficult making 
> Thunderbird not send base64 attachments. Now an upgrade as cost me the 
> ability to revert.  :(
> 
> Suggestions for a mailer to use for patches, and other things that 
> don't like base64?

The best way to send out patches is using git-send-email directly. It's 
pretty straightforward to configure git to use Gmail smtp for this 
purpose.

You can continue using Thunderbird when replying to conversations, or 
you can take a dive from the deep end and investigate Mutt/NeoMutt. :)

-K



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