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From: "Wesley J. Landaker" <wjl@icecavern.net>
To: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Wesley J. Landaker" <wjl@icecavern.net>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Documentation: git-send-email: correct statement about standard ports
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:08:54 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1248995334-28545-2-git-send-email-wjl@icecavern.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1248995334-28545-1-git-send-email-wjl@icecavern.net>

The current documentation states that servers typically listen on port
465 and calls this "ssmtp". While it's true that many mail servers use
port 465 for SSL smtp, this is non-standard, and hails from the days
before smtp and submission TLS support, that arrived in RFC2487 and
RFC3207. Port 465 is actually assigned by IANA for unrelated purposes,
and is mostly still used by mail servers today only to support Outlook
Express.

In any case, this patch helps the documentation better reflect both
standards and reality, while still helpfully mentioning ports numbers
that a user may wish to specify.

Signed-off-by: Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net>
---
 Documentation/git-send-email.txt |    5 +++--
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
index 1c94351..6415d94 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
@@ -142,8 +142,9 @@ user is prompted for a password while the input is masked for privacy.
 
 --smtp-server-port=<port>::
 	Specifies a port different from the default port (SMTP
-	servers typically listen to smtp port 25 and ssmtp port
-	465); symbolic port names (e.g. "submission" instead of 587)
+	servers typically listen to smtp port 25, but may also listen to
+	submission port 587, or a non-standard SSL smtp port like 465);
+	symbolic port names (e.g. "submission" instead of 587)
 	are also accepted. The port can also be set with the
 	'sendemail.smtpserverport' configuration variable.
 
-- 
1.6.3.1

  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-30 23:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-30 23:08 [PATCH 1/2] Documentation: git-send-email: fix submission port number Wesley J. Landaker
2009-07-30 23:08 ` Wesley J. Landaker [this message]
2009-07-31 16:04   ` [PATCH 2/2] Documentation: git-send-email: correct statement about standard ports Junio C Hamano
2009-07-31 17:45     ` [PATCHv2 " Wesley J. Landaker
2009-07-31 18:19       ` Junio C Hamano
2009-08-05 22:40     ` [PATCH " Tony Finch

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