Re: [PATCH 1/2] send-email: remove non-working support for "sendemail.smtpssl"

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 11, 2021, 19:08 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqk0p8hc5v.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <patch-1.2-ee041188e55-20210411T144128Z-avarab@gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason  <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

> So let's just remove it instead of fixing the bug, clearly nobody's
> cared enough to complain.

Hmph, is that a safe assumption? They may have just assumed that you did not break it and kept using plaintext without knowing? If we do not give a warning when sending over an unencrypted channel in red flashing letters, that is more likely explanation than nobody caring that we saw no breakage reports, no?

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