On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 11:38 PM, Ramsay Jones <ramsay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > ... > > EXAMPLE > Use gmail as the smtp server > To use git send-email to send your patches through the GMail SMTP > server, edit ~/.gitconfig to specify your account settings: > > [sendemail] > smtpEncryption = tls > smtpServer = smtp.gmail.com > smtpUser = yourname@xxxxxxxxx > smtpServerPort = 587 > > If you have multifactor authentication setup on your gmail account, you > will need to generate an app-specific password for use with git > send-email. Visit > https://security.google.com/settings/security/apppasswords to setup an > app-specific password. Once setup, you can store it with the > credentials helper: > > $ git credential fill > protocol=smtp > host=smtp.gmail.com > username=youname@xxxxxxxxx > password=app-password It's what I do here. > I have to say that I find GMail such a pain that it is not > worth using, but I know that _some_ people have actually > managed to get it to work ... ;-) Well, it's just using google SMTP server. The setup is the same as for any other SMTP server and I like the app-specific password. Regards, -- Luc -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sparse" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
