Re: [PATCH v2] send-email: auth plain/login fix

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:36:59PM +0200, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:

>  v2: - added sign-off as requested, although the patch is as trivial
>        as it gets
>      - the import is performed only if it will be used

Nice, it's much better not to make the dependency required by people who
are not using smtp auth, but...

> diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
> index 37dfbe7..5a22d18 100755
> --- a/git-send-email.perl
> +++ b/git-send-email.perl
> @@ -1098,6 +1098,8 @@ X-Mailer: git-send-email $gitversion
>  		}
>  
>  		if (defined $smtp_authuser) {
> +			require Authen::SASL;
> +			Authen::SASL->import(qw(Perl));

What about people who are using smtp auth, but don't need or have
Authen::SASL? I.e., shouldn't this be:

  eval {
    require Authen::SASL;
    Authen::SASL->import(qw(Perl));
  }

and if we hit an error, just ignore it and continue without Authen::SASL
loaded?

-Peff