diff --git a/t/t9001-send-email.sh b/t/t9001-send-email.sh
index de5b9802c9deab0f86497bd652eb8b021bcdadb0..1c857cf4ab6e359d7009d2c6b5018bb61c916e93 100755
--- a/t/t9001-send-email.sh
+++ b/t/t9001-send-email.sh
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ test_expect_success \
 
 test_expect_success \
     'Setup helper tool' \
-    '(echo "#!/bin/sh"
+    '(echo "#!$SHELL_PATH"
       echo shift
       echo output=1
       echo "while test -f commandline\$output; do output=\$((\$output+1)); done"
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ test_expect_success 'Valid In-Reply-To when prompting' '
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'setup fake editor' '
-	(echo "#!/bin/sh" &&
+	(echo "#!$SHELL_PATH" &&
 	 echo "echo fake edit >>\"\$1\""
 	) >fake-editor &&
 	chmod +x fake-editor
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ test_expect_success 'sendemail.cc unset' '
 
 test_expect_success '--compose adds MIME for utf8 body' '
 	clean_fake_sendmail &&
-	(echo "#!/bin/sh" &&
+	(echo "#!$SHELL_PATH" &&
 	 echo "echo utf8 body: àéìöú >>\"\$1\""
 	) >fake-editor-utf8 &&
 	chmod +x fake-editor-utf8 &&
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ test_expect_success '--compose adds MIME for utf8 body' '
 
 test_expect_success '--compose respects user mime type' '
 	clean_fake_sendmail &&
-	(echo "#!/bin/sh" &&
+	(echo "#!$SHELL_PATH" &&
 	 echo "(echo MIME-Version: 1.0"
 	 echo " echo Content-Type: text/plain\\; charset=iso-8859-1"
 	 echo " echo Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit"