Re: gmail smtp server and git-send-mail. Is this combination working?

From: Douglas Stockwell <doug@11011.net>
Date: Jan 9, 2008, 04:06 UTC
Message-ID: <fm1h7t$nnr$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <4d8e3fd30801080858h5f109b47v87abc6b315fcfa08@mail.gmail.com>

Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:

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> " Mailing off a set of patches to a mailing list can be quite neatly
> done by git-send-email.
> One of the problems you may encounter there is figuring out which machine
> is going to send your mail.
> I tried smtp.gmail.com, but that one requires tls and a password,
> and git-send-email could not handle that "
> 
> From http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitTips.
> 
> Is this statemant still correct ?
> Is msmtp the only solution for using git-send-mail with gmail? (tls +
> autentication).

No, as of 34cc60ce2b48f6037997543ddbab1ed9903df4a8 you can use SSL and SMTP-Auth.

[sendemail]
         smtpserver = smtp.gmail.com
         smtpuser = <user>@gmail.com
         smtppass = <password>
         smtpssl = true

Can you suggest changes to the documentation if these options are unclear?

Doug