Re: gmail smtp server and git-send-mail. Is this combination working?

[Baz <brian.ewins@gmail.com>]

On Jan 10, 2008 10:49 PM, Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 10, 2008 4:45 AM, Douglas Stockwell <doug@11011.net> wrote:
> > Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:
> >
> > > Well, it would be nice to add this information to the wiki, it's still
> > > mentioning
> > > that you require an external program for supporting the TLS connection.
> > > I'll do that when I'll get my box working with the configuration you suggested,
> > >
> > > What I'm getting at the moment is:
> > > paolo@paolo-desktop:~/git$ git-send-email -compose -to
> > > paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com /home/paolo/Desktop/patch/
> > > snip
> > > snip
> > > Can't locate Net/SMTP/SSL.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
> >
> > As indicated, the module you need is Net::SMTP::SSL, if there is no
> > package for ubuntu, you can install it using CPAN:
> >
> > perl -MCPAN -e 'install Net::SMTP::SSL'
>
> I'm now getting:
> Unable to initialize SMTP properly.  Is there something wrong with
> your config? at /home/paolo/bin/git-send-email line 638.

You also need to have Authen::SASL installed. Do you have that? As I
recall I needed to edit the code to even see that error.

With Authen::SASL and Net::SMTP::SSL, you can get 1 patch at a time in
via gmail. The alternative connection mode which git-send-email
doesn't support yet is to connect over smtp then negotiate TLS using
'STARTTLS'. If you do this then you can send multiple patches via
gmail with a single call to git-send-email.

There was a patch offered a while back from Simon Sasburg to add
starttls support to git-send-email. At the time I questioned it but I
hadn't seen the 1-patch-at-a-time limit then. Thread:
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2007/10/31/373400
(nb the key thing added by this patch is starttls, not tls)

>
> I tried to get help on #git but I failed, it looks like other people
> are getting the same error.

Hope this helps,
Baz

>
> Ciao,
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> Paolo
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