Re: [Quilt-dev] Highly repeatable failure of mail command with unhelpful error message

[Peter Williams]

Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> On Tuesday, 23. May 2006 03:49, Peter Williams wrote:
> > I'm trying to use quilt's mail command to send some patches.  As per
> > advice, I'm doing test runs addressed to myself on the local machine to
> > get things right before sending it out to the real addressees.
> > Unfortunately, the command reliably fails as follows:
> >
> > address@hidden MM-2.6.17-rc4-mm3]$ quilt mail --send
> > address@hidden --prefix=RFC address@hidden
> > --from="Peter Williams <address@hidden>"
> > sed: -e expression #2, char 12: unterminated `s' command
> > Introduction has no subject header (saved as /tmp/quilt_mail.U15821)
> > address@hidden MM-2.6.17-rc4-mm3]$
>
> I don't see this failure here. What does quilt mail ... --trace > log give 
> you, do you see which command fails in the log?
>
> You could try the --mbox=... option for easier testing even when using the 
> real recipients.

I'll try to do this when I have time.  From my point of view it's no 
longer urgent as I have discovered Peter Jackson's sendpatchset script 
which is easier to use and fills my needs.

Peter
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Peter Williams                                   address@hidden

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