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[PATCH] send-email: Net::SMTP::starttls was introduced in v3.01 (Re: [BUG] git-send-email broken: Can't locate object method "starttls")

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
May 31, 2017, 22:44 UTC
Message-ID
<20170531224415.GC81679@aiede.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To
<20170531222455.GD72735@gmail.com>
Subject: send-email: Net::SMTP::starttls was introduced in v3.01

We cannot rely on the starttls method being present in the copy of Net::SMTP shipped with perl until v5.21.5~169 (Update libnet to CPAN version 3.01, 2014-10-10).

Reported-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Reported-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
---
Hi Eric,
Eric Biggers wrote:
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> There seems to be a bug in 'git send-email' caused by this commit:
>
>     commit 0ead000c3aca13a10ae51a3c74c866981e0d33b8
>     Author: Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net>
>     Date:   Fri Mar 24 22:37:32 2017 +0100
>
>         send-email: Net::SMTP::SSL is obsolete, use only when necessary
>
> When running git send-email I get the following error:
>
> 	Can't locate object method "starttls" via package "Net::SMTP" at /usr/lib/git-core/git-send-email line 1410.
>
> The perl version is 5.18.2, and the Net::SMTP version is 2.31.
Thanks for reporting.  Does this patch help?

Regards, Jonathan

 git-send-email.perl | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
index 0d90439d9..3441e3cf5 100755
--- a/git-send-email.perl
+++ b/git-send-email.perl
@@ -1354,7 +1354,7 @@ EOF
 		}
 
 		require Net::SMTP;
-		my $use_net_smtp_ssl = version->parse($Net::SMTP::VERSION) < version->parse("1.28");
+		my $use_net_smtp_ssl = version->parse($Net::SMTP::VERSION) < version->parse("3.01");
 		$smtp_domain ||= maildomain();
 
 		if ($smtp_encryption eq 'ssl') {
-- 
2.13.0.506.g27d5fe0cd
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  1. Eric BiggersMay 31, 2017
  2. send-email: Net::SMTP::starttls was introduced in v3.01 (Re: [BUG] git-send-email broken: Can't locate object method "starttls")Jonathan Nieder, May 31, 2017
  3. Junio C HamanoMay 31, 2017
  4. Eric BiggersMay 31, 2017
  5. Jonathan NiederMay 31, 2017
  6. send-email: Net::SMTP::starttls was introduced in v2.34 (Re: [BUG] git-send-email broken: Can't locate object method "starttls")Jonathan Nieder, Jun 1, 2017

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