Re: [PATCH] Add sendmail -f support to git-send-email.

On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 04:00:57PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Frank Lichtenheld [off-list ref] writes:

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On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 03:02:13PM -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote:

quoted

Some mailing lists use the envelope sender instead of the actual from address,
and this can be broken in git-send-email. This patch sets the -f argument to
the sendmail binary, using the address of the patch author.

At least some MTAs (exim is the one I know for sure) can restrict -f
usage to some users and deny it for others. Don't know how much this
would really be a problem, but using -f unconditionally might be a bad
idea none-the-less.

I thought I saw the '-f' patch somewhere on the list in the last
several weeks and there was a discussion on this topic that
followed the patch.  Am I hallucinating, or was it not applied
because there were some issues?

Can't find anything in the archives. So either I completly suck
at searching, or it is at least several months old, or you
are hallucinating :)

Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld [off-list ref]
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