From: Liu Yubao <yubao.liu@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:01:41 GMT
Subject: Re: How to send patch series without storing them to disk?
Message-ID: <490FE545.9000106@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0811032242080.1791@sys-0.hiltweb.site>

Ian Hilt wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, Liu Yubao wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I tried to send one patch using git-send-email, it reported "Syntax: AUTH mechanism".
>>   git send-email --from <myemail> --to <my-another-email> \
>>                  --smtp-pass <mypass> --smtp-user <myaccount> \
>>                  --smtp-server <the-smtp-server> \
>>                  --smtp-encryption auth          \
>>                  0001-just-a-test.patch
>>
>> The parameters about smtp are right, I tested with msmtp. What's wrong?
>>
>> I have MIME::Base64 and Authen::SASL installed and the smtp server doesn't use
>> ssl and tls.
> 
> Try removing --smtp-encryption and add --envelope-sender <youremail>.
> 

I traced the related Perl modules and found Authen::SASL in Ubuntu Gutsy is buggy,
the problem is resolved after I install the module from CPAN.

> 
> 	Ian
>