If a server's certificate isn't accepted by send-email, the output is: Unable to initialize SMTP properly. Check config and use --smtp-debug. but adding --smtp-debug=1 just produces the same output since we don't get as far as talking SMTP. Turning on SSL debug at level 1 gives: DEBUG: .../IO/Socket/SSL.pm:1796: SSL connect attempt failed error:14090086:SSL routines:ssl3_get_server_certificate:certificate verify failed DEBUG: .../IO/Socket/SSL.pm:673: fatal SSL error: SSL connect attempt failed error:14090086:SSL routines:ssl3_get_server_certificate:certificate verify failed DEBUG: .../IO/Socket/SSL.pm:1780: IO::Socket::IP configuration failed IO::Socket::SSL defines level 1 debug as "print out errors from IO::Socket::SSL and ciphers from Net::SSLeay". In fact, it aliases Net::SSLeay::trace which is defined to guarantee silence at level 0 and only emit error messages at level 1, so let's enable it by default. The modification of warnings is needed to avoid a warning about: Name "IO::Socket::SSL::DEBUG" used only once: possible typo Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Sorry about the delay following up with this. I don't particularly like the need for brackets and modifying the warnings here, but AFAIK there is no other way to avoid a warning that is likely to upset users (although I am far from a Perl expert). git-send-email.perl | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl index e907e0e..72508be 100755 --- a/git-send-email.perl +++ b/git-send-email.perl @@ -1318,6 +1318,13 @@ Message-Id: $message_id require Net::SMTP::SSL; $smtp_domain ||= maildomain(); require IO::Socket::SSL; + + # Suppress "variable accessed once" warning. + { + no warnings 'once'; + $IO::Socket::SSL::DEBUG = 1; + } + # Net::SMTP::SSL->new() does not forward any SSL options IO::Socket::SSL::set_client_defaults( ssl_verify_params()); -- 2.6.3.462.gbe2c914 -- 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