Error while sending patch using git send-email

[gmate.amit@gmail.com (Amit Mehta)]

On Tuesday 13 March 2012 11:28 PM, Alexandru Juncu wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Amit Mehta <gmate.amit@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> This is not a Linux Kernel related query but is rather on the infrastructure to
>> manage patches using git. Before asking here, I did some search on Internet and
>> also posted this query in a different Linux forum but no luck so far. Hence
>> thought of asking here as someone might have faced this issue, while using the
>> git send-email feature. I've installed git-core and git-send-email packages on
>> my Ubuntu machine and I'm using git to generate patch. Now I want to send this
>> patch, but while doing so, git returns with following error:
>>
>> "5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first."
>>
>> Some information regarding my setup:
>> slackjaw at swamp:~/linux-next$ cat /etc/issue
>> Ubuntu 11.10 \n \l
>>
>> slackjaw at swamp:~/linux-next$ cat ~/.gitconfig
>> [user]
>> name = Amit
>> email = <XYZ@xyz.com>
>> [sendemail]
>> smtpserver = smtp.googlemail.com
> 
> Try adding to the [sendmail] directive:
> 
> smtpserverport = 587
> smtpencryption = tls
> 
> Also, don't know if it matters, but I have :
> smtpserver = smtp.gmail.com
> 

Thank you, I added exactly same parameters in my $HOME/.gitconfig file and it
worked.