On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 04:00:57PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Frank Lichtenheld <frank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > 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. > > I thought I saw the '-f' patch somewhere on the list in the last > several weeks and there was a discussion on this topic that > followed the patch. Am I hallucinating, or was it not applied > because there were some issues? Can't find anything in the archives. So either I completly suck at searching, or it is at least several months old, or you are hallucinating :) Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <frank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> www: http://www.djpig.de/ - 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