From: Karl Hasselström Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:34:32 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Allow e-mails to be sent with the Unix sendmail tool Message-ID: <20080715123432.GB17008@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20080715122203.GN25448@sirena.org.uk> On 2008-07-15 13:22:20 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 12:40:26PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote: > > > If the stgit.smtpserver configuration option does not have a > > host:port format, it is assumed to be an external tool. For > > example, to use sendmail just set this variable to > > "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i" (see the examples/gitconfig file). > > I'd really expect to be able to just specify the hostname alone if > using the standard SMTP port. Perhaps checking for a / in the server > might be less surprising? This is actually what the code does, and what the documentation claims it should do. It's just the commit message that's confused. Catalin? -- Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com www.treskal.com/kalle