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+Troubleshooting issues with git-multimail: a FAQ
+================================================
+
+How to check that git-multimail is properly set up?
+---------------------------------------------------
+
+Since version 1.4.0, git-multimail allows a simple self-checking of
+its configuration: run it with the environment variable
+``GIT_MULTIMAIL_CHECK_SETUP`` set to a non-empty string. You should
+get something like this::
+
+  $ GIT_MULTIMAIL_CHECK_SETUP=true /home/moy/dev/git-multimail/git-multimail/git_multimail.py
+  Environment values:
+      administrator : 'the administrator of this repository'
+      charset : 'utf-8'
+      emailprefix : '[git-multimail] '
+      fqdn : 'anie'
+      projectdesc : 'UNNAMED PROJECT'
+      pusher : 'moy'
+      repo_path : '/home/moy/dev/git-multimail'
+      repo_shortname : 'git-multimail'
+
+  Now, checking that git-multimail's standard input is properly set ...
+  Please type some text and then press Return
+  foo
+  You have just entered:
+  foo
+  git-multimail seems properly set up.
+
+If you forgot to set an important variable, you may get instead::
+
+  $ GIT_MULTIMAIL_CHECK_SETUP=true /home/moy/dev/git-multimail/git-multimail/git_multimail.py
+  No email recipients configured!
+
+Do not set ``$GIT_MULTIMAIL_CHECK_SETUP`` other than for testing your
+configuration: it would disable the hook completely.
+
+Git is not using the right address in the From/To/Reply-To field
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+
+First, make sure that git-multimail actually uses what you think it is
+using. A lot happens to your email (especially when posting to a
+mailing-list) between the time `git_multimail.py` sends it and the
+time it reaches your inbox.
+
+A simple test (to do on a test repository, do not use in production as
+it would disable email sending): change your post-receive hook to call
+`git_multimail.py` with the `--stdout` option, and try to push to the
+repository. You should see something like::
+
+  Counting objects: 3, done.
+  Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 263 bytes | 0 bytes/s, done.
+  Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
+  remote: Sending notification emails to: foo.bar@example.com
+  remote: ===========================================================================
+  remote: Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 18:39:59 +0200
+  remote: To: foo.bar@example.com
+  remote: Subject: [git] branch master updated: foo
+  remote: MIME-Version: 1.0
+  remote: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
+  remote: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+  remote: Message-ID: <20160425163959.2311.20498@anie>
+  remote: From: Auth Or <Foo.Bar@example.com>
+  remote: Reply-To: Auth Or <Foo.Bar@example.com>
+  remote: X-Git-Host: example
+  ...
+  remote: --
+  remote: To stop receiving notification emails like this one, please contact
+  remote: the administrator of this repository.
+  remote: ===========================================================================
+  To /path/to/repo
+     6278f04..e173f20  master -> master
+
+Note: this does not include the sender (Return-Path: header), as it is
+not part of the message content but passed to the mailer. Some mailer
+show the ``Sender:`` field instead of the ``From:`` field (for
+example, Zimbra Webmail shows ``From: <sender-field> on behalf of
+<from-field>``).