Re: "git send-email" thru Gmail incurs few minutes delay

> On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 3:52 PM, Andrey Utkin
> <andrey.utkin@corp.bluecherry.net> wrote:
>> After "Send this email? ([y]es|[n]o|[q]uit|[a]ll): y" prompt and
>> before "Password for 'smtp://XXX@gmail.com@smtp.gmail.com:587':"
>> prompt I always have a delay of 2-3 minutes. It is weird! "Unsafe
>> clients" are allowed in Gmail settings.
>> I experience this both with @gmail.com mailbox and with gmail-based
>> company domain mail.
>> I noticed this happening the first time several months ago.
>> Has anybody else experienced this? Any solution?
>> My git version is 2.6.4.
>
> Tested more with fresh git version 2.7.1.380.g0fea050 (from git's git)
>  # equery list '*' | grep -i smtp
> dev-perl/Net-SMTP-SSL-1.30.0
> mail-mta/ssmtp-2.64-r3
>
> It seems the delay is caused by git-send-email trying to resolve
> workstation's FQDN.
> When I add "smtpdomain = localhost.localdomain" to [sendmail] section
> in gitconfig, it proceeds immediately.
> The same behavior (including workaround case) happens with
> openmailbox.org and fastmail.com for me.
> BTW "smtpEncryption = tls" in gitconfig seems to mean STARTTLS, so
> using fastmail's TLS port 465 doesn't work at all, you need to use
> 587.
>