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git send-email doesn't work with IPv6 and STARTTLS

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MOMatthias-Christian Ott <ott@mirix.org>
Date
Apr 30, 2014, 19:43 UTC
Message-ID
<53615259.90200@mirix.org>

$ git --version git version 1.8.5.5

git send-email uses Net::SMTP connections that use STARTTLS. Net::SMTP does not support IPv6. I patched Net:SMTP to use IO::Socket::INET6 and it worked.

- Matthias-Christian Ott
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