Re: [PATCH] send-email: If the ca path is not specified, use the defaults

Junio C Hamano wrote:

Ruben Kerkhof [off-list ref] writes:

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As a last check, I set smtpsslcertpath = /etc/pki/tls/cert.pem in
~/.gitconfig and git-send-email works fine now.

Which would mean that the existing code, by blindly defaulting to
/etc/ssl/certs/ and misdiagnosing that the directory is meant to be
used as SSL_ca_path, breaks a set-up that otherwise _should_ work.

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Ram (who did 35035bbf), with the patch from Ruben in the thread, do
you get either the warning or SSL failure?  Conceptually, the
resulting code is much better, I think, without blindly defaulting
/etc/ssl/certs and instead of relying on the underlying platform
just working out of the box with its own default,

FWIW this should help on Mac OS X, too.  Folks using git on mac
at $DAYJOB have been using the workaround described at
http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/CACertificates#Mac_OS_X_10.6_and_higher
so I forgot to report it. :/

Thanks,
Jonathan