Re: [GSoC] A late proposal: a modern send-email

2016-03-28 6:00 GMT+08:00 Eric Wong [off-list ref]:

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

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惠轶群 [off-list ref] writes:

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- Build a simple email client (maybe a web components based web app or
wxwidgets based GUI client, they are both cross-platform) which is
easy to use for sending patch without disrupting the mailbox format.

I suspect it would yield a better result if the plan were to update
a popular email client and make it possible to tell it to read an
existing text file (i.e. mbox) without corrupting its contents.
People do not have to learn a new mail client if done that way.

Another bigger problem is people rely heavily on webmail UIs
nowadays instead of running any local mail clients :<

I know many heavily email user choose to migrate to client such as
alpine or mutt after using gmail for a long time.

While Gmail provides SMTP access, it was (last I was told)
incompatible with two-factor auth; so I've encountered users
unable to send patches with their normal 2FA-enabled accounts.

That's the origin of this idea of `mailto`.

In fact, you could send mail via 2FA-enabled accounts via
"app password" metioned by Javier. But it's annoying to create
"app password" for every client.

If there is a `mailto` method to send patch, you could type something
like

    git send-patch --mailto origin/master..HEAD

Then, gmail is launched with the content of patch in it. You could edit
the list of `to` and `cc`(You could even take use of gmail contact). Then
just send. That's all. No need to SMTP config or "app password" any
more.

Maybe git hackers at Google have enough pull to lobby Gmail's
web interface to make it easier to send plain-text patches;
but I would love more to see users running local mail clients
and even running their own SMTP servers.

Yes, this should be free with user to pick their favorite mail client.

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That may not be a "Git" project, but GSoC is not limited to Git ;-)

Completely agreed; email is critical to decentralized development;
but I don't believe decentralization is in the best interests of
any large and powerful corporation.

IMHO, what we need is a SoIS: Summer of Independent Sysadmins :>