From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:19:32 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 2/2] Documentation: git-send-email: correct statement about standard ports Message-ID: <7vbpn0r9zf.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <200907311145.01759.wjl@icecavern.net> "Wesley J. Landaker" writes: > 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.