Re: [PATCH] Documentation/SubmittingPatches: fix Gmail workaround advice

From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 7, 2010, 18:01 UTC
Message-ID: <76718491002071001l7dee7c4fr64cf2e57072b184@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1265555642-40204-1-git-send-email-git@aaroncrane.co.uk>

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Aaron Crane <git@aaroncrane.co.uk> wrote:

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> The suggested approach to dealing with Gmail's propensity for breaking
> patches doesn't seem to work.  Recommend an alternative technique which
> does.
>
> Signed-off-by: Aaron Crane <git@aaroncrane.co.uk>
> ---

Thanks for writing this up. See inline.

> +However, "git send-email" needs the Net::SMTP::SSL Perl module to send to
> +TLS-encrypted servers.  On some operating systems (like Mac OS X with
> +MacPorts), it may be hard to install that module.  In such cases, the
> +third-party "msmtp" program might be easier to install.

Neither is harder to install than the other, I use msmtp primarily for historical reasons (git didn't used to support SMTP over SSL/TLS) and because it doesn't prompt me for my password. :-)

So I'd just say:

"Note that "git send-email" needs the Net::SMTP::SSL Perl module to send to TLS-encrypted servers. Alternately, git can make use of the third-party "msmtp" program like so:"

Thanks,

j.