On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:44 AM, Magnus Bäck <magnus.back@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Friday, February 18, 2011 at 12:45 CET, > Yongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> When I use git 'send-email', I get an error "Command unknown: 'AUTH' >> at /usr/bin/git-send-email line 775, <STDIN> line 1". >> Is there anyone meet the same error? > > 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. Thank you. > > For testing purposes there are options to "git send-email" to > override the values set in the configuration files. Those might > be more convenient to use when testing out new configurations. > > -- > Magnus Bäck Opinions are my own and do not necessarily > SW Configuration Manager represent the ones of my employer, etc. > Sony Ericsson > -- Best Wishes Yongqiang Yang -- 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