From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 23:00:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add sendmail -f support to git-send-email.
Message-ID: <7v6483u95i.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070410223826.GH2813@planck.djpig.de>

Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de> writes:

> 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?