On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Aaron Crane <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- 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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html