Re: [PATCH] Add sendmail -f support to git-send-email.

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On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 03:02:13PM -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> Some mailing lists use the envelope sender instead of the actual from address,
> and this can be broken in git-send-email. This patch sets the -f argument to
> the sendmail binary, using the address of the patch author.

At least some MTAs (exim is the one I know for sure) can restrict -f
usage to some users and deny it for others. Don't know how much this
would really be a problem, but using -f unconditionally might be a bad
idea none-the-less.

Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <frank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
www: http://www.djpig.de/
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