Comments on: Getting “bzr send” to work with GMail

By: Tom Berger

Tom Berger — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:45:03 +0000

Fantastic!

Note that this doesn’t work for me (with Gmail) when the mailbox argument to append is a Unicode string. Converting it to an old-school string does the trick.

By: Chris Conway

Chris Conway — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:35:48 +0000

Thanks! I beat my head against to wall trying to figure this out a while ago and finally gave up when I figured out you can’t make an attachment through the GMail “API”…

By: LaserJock

LaserJock — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:53:48 +0000

Thanks for this James, I like it much better than a “send via Gmail SMTP” route. I really like the idea of it showing up as a draft in my Gmail. In fact, I’d love to get reportbug to do the same thing so I could do similar when reporting Debian bugs.

By: James Henstridge

James Henstridge — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:59:20 +0000

Bazaar does have support for sending to an SMTP server, and that is what the first solution on the wiki page I linked to describes.

But that doesn’t let you pick recipients from your address book or defer sending the message in case you want to edit it (in contrast, my solution always requires additional work to send the message). The plugin I wrote isn’t obviously superior to those solutions, but it does have some benefits.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:50:18 +0000

I haven't used bzr send yet, but I gather that it doesn't use sendmail to send the mail. That would seem the logical choice, as you could then configure your MTA to send via Gmail's SMTP server.