Re: [PATCH] send-email: allow sendmail binary to be used instead of SMTP

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: May 15, 2006, 16:25 UTC
Message-ID: <7viro7tful.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90605150337l3357ce3by22834823eee7b87c@mail.gmail.com>

"Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> writes:

Show 16 quoted lines

> On 5/15/06, Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> wrote:
>> Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
>> > I am not opposed to have an option to run a local submission
>> > agent binary (I said I like that if(){}else{} there, didn't I?).
>> > The ability to do so is a good thing.  I am not however sure
>> > about changing the default when no option is specified on the
>> > command line.
>>
>> By "I believe this is what Martin wanted", I meant changing the default to
>> sendmail: <46a038f90604271804j195d62f3x93ae816e809f4ffd@mail.gmail.com>
>>
>>         > Oh, it should just work with sendmail if it's there and we don't
>
> Thanks Eric! git-send-email used to default to using local binaries.
> It was only with the switch to Net::SMTP that the default changed to
> localhost:25.

Thanks, and I think it makes sense.