1Troubleshooting issues with git-multimail: a FAQ 2================================================ 3 4Git is not using the right address in the From/To/Reply-To field 5---------------------------------------------------------------- 6 7First, make sure that git-multimail actually uses what you think it is 8using. A lot happens to your email (especially when posting to a 9mailing-list) between the time `git_multimail.py` sends it and the 10time it reaches your inbox. 11 12A simple test (to do on a test repository, do not use in production as 13it would disable email sending): change your post-receive hook to call 14`git_multimail.py` with the `--stdout` option, and try to push to the 15repository. You should see something like:: 16 17 Counting objects: 3, done. 18 Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 263 bytes | 0 bytes/s, done. 19 Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0) 20 remote: Sending notification emails to: foo.bar@example.com 21 remote: =========================================================================== 22 remote: Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 18:39:59 +0200 23 remote: To: foo.bar@example.com 24 remote: Subject: [git] branch master updated: foo 25 remote: MIME-Version: 1.0 26 remote: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 27 remote: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 28 remote: Message-ID: <20160425163959.2311.20498@anie> 29 remote: From: Auth Or <Foo.Bar@example.com> 30 remote: Reply-To: Auth Or <Foo.Bar@example.com> 31 remote: X-Git-Host: example 32 ... 33 remote: -- 34 remote: To stop receiving notification emails like this one, please contact 35 remote: the administrator of this repository. 36 remote: =========================================================================== 37 To /path/to/repo 38 6278f04..e173f20 master -> master 39 40Note: this does not include the sender (Return-Path: header), as it is 41not part of the message content but passed to the mailer. Some mailer 42show the ``Sender:`` field instead of the ``From:`` field (for 43example, Zimbra Webmail shows ``From: <sender-field> on behalf of 44<from-field>``).