Re: Setting up gmail for git send-email

[Philip McGrath <philip@philipmcgrath.com>]

On 5/29/24 23:21, Imran Iqbal wrote:
>> I am unsure if my reply on debuggs was sent, i am yet to get a email address
>> that supports git send-email,
> 
>> Also if anyone sees this and has an invite to riseup email service ( should
>> the service be capable of handling another stranger) then please may i have
>> a invite?, google sux
> 
> I know that this is not the main point of your email (hence changing the
> subject), but I would like to chime in on how I get my gmail to work git
> send-email. The easiest way is to just have it use another program. In
> my case I use msmtp.
> 

Along those lines, when this email address used to be hosted on Gmail 
infrastructure, I used sendgmail, which is specifically designed for git 
send-email and implemented using the Gmail API.

I packaged it for Guix at the time: 
https://packages.guix.gnu.org/packages/sendgmail/

There are instructions for obtaining the necessary API key at 
<https://github.com/google/gmail-oauth2-tools/tree/master/go/sendgmail>, 
and I saw just now that there were some commits several years of 
inactivity! (During that time, I changed hosting for this email address, 
so I haven't used sendgmail lately.) One commit obsoletes our 
"sendgmail-remove-domain-restriction.patch", and it looks like others 
may be necessary to satisfy new authentication requirements imposed by 
Google.

Philip