New to Mutt, unable to send messages in *any* attempted way

[Derek Martin]

On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 11:06:38AM -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 12:36:39PM -0500, X Tec wrote:
> > set sendmail="/usr/bin/msmtp [...] --passwordeval=$(gpg --no-tty -q -d ~/.user.gpg)"
[...]
> > Hope someone else could give other advise, or if this is really not
> > possible in Mutt, to confirm *why*.
> 
> Sorry, this isn't currently possible in Mutt.  The $sendmail variable is
> handled specially: it's tokenized by space and invoked directly via
> execvp().  So you won't be able to use arguments with spaces in them inside
> the variable, or any shell quoting since it doesn't pass through the shell.

Couldn't you do something like the following?

set my_sendmail=/usr/bin/msmtp [...] --passwordeval=$(gpg --no-tty -q -d ~/.user.gpg)"
set sendmail=$my_sendmail

Don't know, haven't tried it, but as long as the first thing evaluates
to something that sendmail's tokenization can handle, seems like it
should work...

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