[bug#50420] [PATCH 0/2] Add sendgmail.

[Philip McGrath]

On 9/14/21 5:32 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Philip McGrath <philip@philipmcgrath.com> skribis:
>
> >    gnu: Add go-cloud-google-com-go-compute-metadata.
> >    gnu: Add go-github-com-google-gmail-oauth2-tools-go-sendgmail.
>
> Applied, thanks!
>
> Perhaps the 2nd package could be called just “sendgmail” since it
> provides a CLI?

That would make sense to me: I'm not sure what the general rule is for 
breaking out of the language-specific naming conventions, and I'm not a 
Go programmer, but 
“go-github-com-google-gmail-oauth2-tools-go-sendgmail” seemed especially 
egregiously long.

The sengmail utility is recommended in 
<https://git-send-email.io/#step-2> (by the SourceHut developers). There 
are some things I don't like about it, but it seems better than other 
approaches I've tried, like configuring an MTA with (even more) ambient 
authority.

It might also be nice (or it might not) to apply one of the three pull 
requests since 2019 to support non-"@gmail.com" addresses (e.g. for work 
or school, from what has variously been known as Google Workspace, G 
Suite, or Google Apps for Your Domain). Indeed, the upstream repository 
has not been updated at all since 2019 ... I used 
<https://github.com/google/gmail-oauth2-tools/pull/37> via a package 
transformation to submit this patch series, whereupon I discovered I 
wasn't the first person to have this idea.

-Philip