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Re: gmail smtp server and git-send-mail. Is this combination working?

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JSJason Sewall <jasonsewall@gmail.com>
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Jan 8, 2008, 18:16 UTC
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I've had luck with msmtp: http://msmtp.sourceforge.net/; it's basically a drop-in replacement for sendmail that supports the authentication gmail requires.

A quick prayer to the Gods of Google portended this blog entry, which spells out how to configure it for gmail pretty plainly: http://typo.onxen.info/articles/2006/06/27/activemailer-sending-via-gmail

Then you just need to specify --smtp-serve /path/to/msmtp to send-email and you're all set.

Jason
On Jan 8, 2008 11:58 AM, Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi all,
> as I previously wrote I would like to use git-send-email to send out a series
> of patches.
> While I was looking for documentation I saw the following statement in the
> git wiki:
>
> " Mailing off a set of patches to a mailing list can be quite neatly
> done by git-send-email.
> One of the problems you may encounter there is figuring out which machine
> is going to send your mail.
> I tried smtp.gmail.com, but that one requires tls and a password,
> and git-send-email could not handle that "
>
> From http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitTips.
>
> Is this statemant still correct ?
> Is msmtp the only solution for using git-send-mail with gmail? (tls +
> autentication).
>
> Thanks.
>
> regards,
> --
> Paolo
> http://paolo.ciarrocchi.googlepages.com/
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