[wxhaskell-users] whoops! sorry for mail x 3

[Eric Y. K. <eri...@gm...>]

Whoops! I think I just sent everybody three copies of the same patch.
How embarassing.

Here's what I learned in the process.  Maybe it will help you.  My
profile is (a) on MacOS X (b) too scared or lazy to configure my mail
server properly, vanilla config (c) using gmail and mutt/mstmp (d) want
darcs send in a convenient manner.

1) Unless you actually know how to configure your mail server
   properly, or have a proper domainname, sourceforge will reject your
   darcs send patches.  I have neither.  Sourceforge gives me a
   "550-Unrouteable address"

2) The following does not work:
     darcs send --sendmail-command=3D"msmtp -t %t %<"

   Potentially because of the '<' and '>' characters in the email
   address

3) On the other hand, if you are using mutt, the following _does_
   indeed seem to work:
     darcs send --sendmail-command=3D"mutt -s %s -a %a %t %<"

   Presumably, your mutt is configured to use msmtp, which is
   far less scary than configuring your mailserver properly (sigh).

4) You can add the following line in your _darcs/prefs/defaults
   to make it more convenient:
    ALL sendmail-command mutt -s %s -a %a %t %<

5) You might get confused into thinking it's not working and
   consequently send the list 6 copies of your patch whilst trying to
   debug things (hint, try playing around with an example repo).
   But that's possibly just the mailing list manager being clever about
   not sending you mail that you sent yourself. You can tell that it
   got sent by looking in your Sent Mail folder in Gmail.

Sorry about that.  Hope this helps,

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Eric Kow                     http://www.loria.fr/~kow
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