From: Catalin Marinas Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:47:52 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Allow e-mails to be sent with the Unix sendmail tool Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20080715123432.GB17008@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk> 2008/7/15 Karl Hasselström : > On 2008-07-15 13:22:20 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > >> On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 12:40:26PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote: >> >> > If the stgit.smtpserver configuration option does not have a >> > host:port format, it is assumed to be an external tool. For >> > example, to use sendmail just set this variable to >> > "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i" (see the examples/gitconfig file). >> >> I'd really expect to be able to just specify the hostname alone if >> using the standard SMTP port. Perhaps checking for a / in the server >> might be less surprising? > > This is actually what the code does, and what the documentation claims > it should do. It's just the commit message that's confused. Catalin? Yes, indeed, but too many things to keep in sync :-). -- Catalin