Re: send-email issue

From: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: Aug 16, 2021, 13:11 UTC
Message-ID: <20210816131143.6ifcbpxp6ilo2nv5@nitro.local>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq35rbtx84.fsf@gitster.g>

On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 04:36:43PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> writes:
> 
> > I know that this is confusing terminology, but "tls" stands for "StartTLS",
> > which works on port 587, and "ssl" starts for "smtps" on port 465.
> 
> This reminds me of an earlier discussion we had that somehow petered
> out before it resuted in usable improvement,
> 
>   https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqtuo9kgo0.fsf@gitster.g/
> 
> I do not think it is feasible to immediately rename the two choices
> to SSL/TLS vs StartTLS without transition period, but the first
> patch in the three-patch series there to update the documentation
> alone may have helped this case.
> 
> We may also want to error out when seeing an unknown option other
> than 'ssl' and 'tls', as the necessary first step to make it
> possible to later safely accept StartTLS as a synonym for 'tls' and
> 'ssl/tls' as a synonym for 'ssl'.

Is it easier to just add less ambiguous aliases, eventually phasing out old terminology?

tls -> starttls ssl -> smtps

This way we don't have to change anything, and "smtps" is a valid way to refer to smtp over ssl (e.g. see /etc/services for 465/tcp).

-K