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Re: [PATCH] Add sendmail -f support to git-send-email.

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Apr 10, 2007, 23:00 UTC
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<7v6483u95i.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
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<20070410223826.GH2813@planck.djpig.de>
Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de> writes:
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> On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 03:02:13PM -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
>> Some mailing lists use the envelope sender instead of the actual from address,
>> and this can be broken in git-send-email. This patch sets the -f argument to
>> the sendmail binary, using the address of the patch author.
>
> At least some MTAs (exim is the one I know for sure) can restrict -f
> usage to some users and deny it for others. Don't know how much this
> would really be a problem, but using -f unconditionally might be a bad
> idea none-the-less.

I thought I saw the '-f' patch somewhere on the list in the last several weeks and there was a discussion on this topic that followed the patch. Am I hallucinating, or was it not applied because there were some issues?

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Message 6 of 9 in “Add sendmail -f support to git-send-email.”
  1. Add sendmail -f support to git-send-email.Robin H. Johnson, Apr 10, 2007
  2. Make envelope-sender fully configurable.Robin H. Johnson, Apr 10, 2007
  3. Robin H. JohnsonApr 10, 2007
  4. Frank LichtenheldApr 10, 2007
  5. Robin H. JohnsonApr 10, 2007
  6. Junio C HamanoApr 10, 2007
  7. Frank LichtenheldApr 11, 2007
  8. Junio C HamanoApr 11, 2007
  9. Lukas SandströmApr 11, 2007

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