Re: [PATCH] Documentation/SubmittingPatches: fix Gmail workaround advice

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Aaron Crane [off-list ref] wrote:

The suggested approach to dealing with Gmail's propensity for breaking
patches doesn't seem to work.  Recommend an alternative technique which
does.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Crane <redacted>
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Thanks for writing this up. See inline.

+However, "git send-email" needs the Net::SMTP::SSL Perl module to send to
+TLS-encrypted servers.  On some operating systems (like Mac OS X with
+MacPorts), it may be hard to install that module.  In such cases, the
+third-party "msmtp" program might be easier to install.

Neither is harder to install than the other, I use msmtp primarily for
historical reasons (git didn't used to support SMTP over SSL/TLS) and
because it doesn't prompt me for my password. :-)

So I'd just say:

"Note that "git send-email" needs the Net::SMTP::SSL Perl module to
send to TLS-encrypted servers.  Alternately, git can make use of the
third-party "msmtp" program like so:"

Thanks,

j.