Re: git send-email doesn't work with IPv6 and STARTTLS

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: May 1, 2014, 18:05 UTC
Message-ID: <20140501180546.GA9218@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <53615259.90200@mirix.org>

Hi,

Matthias-Christian Ott wrote[1]:

> git send-email uses Net::SMTP connections that use STARTTLS. Net::SMTP
> does not support IPv6. I patched Net:SMTP to use IO::Socket::INET6 and
> it worked.

Thanks for reporting.

 1. What version of Net::SMTP do you use?

 2. Would you be willing to contribute your patch to Net::SMTP upstream,
    for example by mailing it to bug-libnet@rt.cpan.org with
    the string "[rt.cpan.org #93823]" somewhere in the subject line[2]?

Hope that helps, Jonathan

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/247769 [2] https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=93823 https://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/RT/CPAN/Usage.html