Administering
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

--confirm=<mode>::
	Confirm just before sending:
+
--
- 'always' will always confirm before sending
- 'never' will never confirm before sending
- 'cc' will confirm before sending when send-email has automatically
  added addresses from the patch to the Cc list
- 'compose' will confirm before sending the first message when using --compose.
- 'auto' is equivalent to 'cc' + 'compose'
--
+
Default is the value of `sendemail.confirm` configuration value; if that
is unspecified, default to 'auto' unless any of the suppress options
have been specified, in which case default to 'compose'.

--dry-run::
	Do everything except actually send the emails.

--[no-]format-patch::
	When an argument may be understood either as a reference or as a file name,
	choose to understand it as a format-patch argument (`--format-patch`)
	or as a file name (`--no-format-patch`). By default, when such a conflict
	occurs, git send-email will fail.

--quiet::
	Make git-send-email less verbose.  One line per email should be
	all that is output.

--[no-]validate::
	Perform sanity checks on patches.
	Currently, validation means the following:
+
--
		*	Invoke the sendemail-validate hook if present (see linkgit:githooks[5]).
		*	Warn of patches that contain lines longer than
			998 characters unless a suitable transfer encoding
			('auto', 'base64', or 'quoted-printable') is used;
			this is due to SMTP limits as described by
			https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5322.txt.
--
+
Default is the value of `sendemail.validate`; if this is not set,
default to `--validate`.

--force::
	Send emails even if safety checks would prevent it.


Information
~~~~~~~~~~~

--dump-aliases::
	Instead of the normal operation, dump the shorthand alias names from
	the configured alias file(s), one per line in alphabetical order. Note
	that this only includes the alias name and not its expanded email addresses.
	See 'sendemail.aliasesFile' for more information about aliases.

--translate-aliases::
	Instead of the normal operation, read from standard input and
	interpret each line as an email alias. Translate it according to the
	configured alias file(s). Output each translated name and email
	address to standard output, one per line. See 'sendemail.aliasFile'
	for more information about aliases.

CONFIGURATION
-------------

include::includes/cmd-config-section-all.adoc[]

include::config/sendemail.adoc[]

EXAMPLES OF SMTP SERVERS
------------------------
Use Gmail as the SMTP Server
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
To use `git send-email` to send your patches through the Gmail SMTP server,
edit `~/.gitconfig` to specify your account settings:

----
[sendemail]
	smtpEncryption = tls
	smtpServer = smtp.gmail.com
	smtpUser = yourname@gmail.com
	smtpServerPort = 587
----

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