git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: send-email issue

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Aug 16, 2021, 16:19 UTC
Message-ID
<YRqQJTyBW6j6b2pW@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To
<20210816131143.6ifcbpxp6ilo2nv5@nitro.local>
On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 09:11:43AM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
Show 18 quoted lines
> > I do not think it is feasible to immediately rename the two choices
> > to SSL/TLS vs StartTLS without transition period, but the first
> > patch in the three-patch series there to update the documentation
> > alone may have helped this case.
> > 
> > We may also want to error out when seeing an unknown option other
> > than 'ssl' and 'tls', as the necessary first step to make it
> > possible to later safely accept StartTLS as a synonym for 'tls' and
> > 'ssl/tls' as a synonym for 'ssl'.
> 
> Is it easier to just add less ambiguous aliases, eventually phasing out old
> terminology?
> 
> tls -> starttls
> ssl -> smtps
> 
> This way we don't have to change anything, and "smtps" is a valid way to refer
> to smtp over ssl (e.g. see /etc/services for 465/tcp).

FWIW, those options make quite a bit of sense to me (and I agree the transition to them would be easy).

-Peff
Previous: Konstantin RyabitsevNext: Junio C Hamano
Message 8 of 13 in “send-email issue”
  1. Ben GoldbergAug 13, 2021
  2. Ben GoldbergAug 13, 2021
  3. Ben GoldbergAug 13, 2021
  4. Konstantin RyabitsevAug 13, 2021
  5. Ben GoldbergAug 13, 2021
  6. Junio C HamanoAug 14, 2021
  7. Konstantin RyabitsevAug 16, 2021
  8. Jeff KingAug 16, 2021
  9. Junio C HamanoAug 16, 2021
  10. Jeff KingAug 16, 2021
  11. Junio C HamanoAug 16, 2021
  12. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonAug 23, 2021
  13. Junio C HamanoAug 24, 2021

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.