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

From
Imran M Yousuf <imyousuf@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 9, 2008, 03:12 UTC
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Hi Paolo,

I just setup GMail with git-send-email using http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitTips#head-a015948617d9becbdc9836776f96ad244ba87cb8.

Just add port 587 below the host and it should work fine. In the username it should some.user.name@gmail.com.

Best regards,
Imran
On Jan 8, 2008 10:58 PM, 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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  1. Paolo CiarrocchiJan 8, 2008
  2. Jason SewallJan 8, 2008
  3. Pascal ObryJan 8, 2008
  4. Imran M YousufJan 9, 2008
  5. Douglas StockwellJan 9, 2008
  6. Paolo CiarrocchiJan 9, 2008
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