If SSL verification is enabled in git send-email, we could attempt to call a method on an undefined value if the verification failed, since $smtp would end up being undef. Look up the error string in a way that will produce a helpful error message and not cause further errors. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- git-send-email.perl | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl index 2162478..3782c3b 100755 --- a/git-send-email.perl +++ b/git-send-email.perl @@ -1234,7 +1234,7 @@ X-Mailer: git-send-email $gitversion if ($smtp->code == 220) { $smtp = Net::SMTP::SSL->start_SSL($smtp, ssl_verify_params()) - or die "STARTTLS failed! ".$smtp->message; + or die "STARTTLS failed! ".IO::Socket::SSL::errstr(); $smtp_encryption = ''; # Send EHLO again to receive fresh # supported commands -- 1.8.4.rc3 -- 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