Re: [PATCHv2 2/2] Documentation: git-send-email: correct statement about standard ports

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 31, 2009, 18:19 UTC
Message-ID: <7vbpn0r9zf.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <200907311145.01759.wjl@icecavern.net>

"Wesley J. Landaker" <wjl@icecavern.net> writes:

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> On Friday 31 July 2009 10:04:39 Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> As you noted, port 465 has been used as a well-known de-facto port to run
>> SMTP over SSL at many places.  I do not think it would help anybody by
>> clarifying that it is a "non-standard" port here.  This is not a place to
>> educate people on which port they should run their SMTP servers.
>>
>> But I do not care deeply enough, and I can let it pass.
>>
>> I have much more trouble with that "like 465" than I have with "non
>> standard".
>
> If you don't like the phrasing, how about this revised patch? I call it a
> "common SSL smtp port", and refer directly to 465. I think should make everyone
> happy:

Looks really good.  Thanks.