Re: send-email issue

> >> 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).
> 
> Back when we had the original discussion in April [*], I think we
> found one small glitch that we need to solve before we can start
> introducing aliases---setting the variable to unknown value (imagine
> you set it to 'starttls' and then run a version of Git that does not
> know it yet) does not make Git barf but silently ignore.
> 
> And that needs to be changed to die, and versions of Git with such a
> change, without any alias added, should be allowed to spread to
> eradicate the "silently ignore" version, before we can safely start
> adding aliases.