Re: an error when using 'git send-email'

On Tuesday, February 22, 2011 at 14:30 CET,
     Yongqiang Yang [off-list ref] wrote:

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:44 AM, Magnus Bäck
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

You seem to have configured a username and password for SMTP
authentication, yet the server Git connects to doesn't support
authentication.

Make sure the SMTP server you've configured Git to use
(sendemail.smtpserver configuration variable) is the right one.
If so, clear the smtpemail.smtpuser and smtpemail.smtppass
variables as you obviously can't use them with the server.

Contents in my .gitconfig file are as follows.
[sendemail]
    smtpencryption = tls
    smtpserver = smtp.gmail.com
    smtpuser = xxxxxxx
    smtpserverport = 587

When I remove the line smtpuser.  Git said my config file is not
correct.

According to your previous email you're running Git 1.5.6.5. That
version doesn't support STARTTLS in send-email, only SSL wrappermode.
Unless Gmail supports the latter on port 465 (which I seriously doubt)
you must either upgrade Git to 1.6.0 or later or have send-email submit
the messages to another SMTP host that can relay the message directly to
the final destination or is capable of STARTTLS-based SMTP and thus able
to connect to Gmail on your behalf. Your Git is ancient so I strongly
suggest the upgrade approach.

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