Re: [PATCH] send-email: allow sendmail binary to be used instead of SMTP

From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: May 15, 2006, 10:37 UTC
Message-ID: <46a038f90605150337l3357ce3by22834823eee7b87c@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060515101142.GD6855@localdomain>

On 5/15/06, Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> wrote:

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> Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> > I am not opposed to have an option to run a local submission
> > agent binary (I said I like that if(){}else{} there, didn't I?).
> > The ability to do so is a good thing.  I am not however sure
> > about changing the default when no option is specified on the
> > command line.
>
> By "I believe this is what Martin wanted", I meant changing the default to
> sendmail: <46a038f90604271804j195d62f3x93ae816e809f4ffd@mail.gmail.com>
>
>         > Oh, it should just work with sendmail if it's there and we don't

Thanks Eric! git-send-email used to default to using local binaries. It was only with the switch to Net::SMTP that the default changed to localhost:25. IMHO the developer's machine is more likely to have a working /usr/sbin/sendmail than an SMTP server (specially looking at current linux desktop configurations).

OTOH, as long as I can override it to use sendmail, it's all good.

martin