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

["Paolo Ciarrocchi" <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>]

On Jan 9, 2008 5:06 AM, Douglas Stockwell <doug@11011.net> wrote:
> Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:
> > " Mailing off a set of patches to a mailing list can be quite neatly
> > done by git-send-email.
> > One of the problems you may encounter there is figuring out which machine
> > is going to send your mail.
> > I tried smtp.gmail.com, but that one requires tls and a password,
> > and git-send-email could not handle that "
> >
> > From http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitTips.
> >
> > Is this statemant still correct ?
> > Is msmtp the only solution for using git-send-mail with gmail? (tls +
> > autentication).
>
> No, as of 34cc60ce2b48f6037997543ddbab1ed9903df4a8 you can use SSL and
> SMTP-Auth.
>
> [sendemail]
>          smtpserver = smtp.gmail.com
>          smtpuser = <user>@gmail.com
>          smtppass = <password>
>          smtpssl = true
>
> Can you suggest changes to the documentation if these options are unclear?

I got confuse by the ssl part in the name of the option,
I was looking and grepping for tls.

As I wrote in my previous email I think it's worth to add this very useful
information into the wiki as well.

Thanks.
-- 
Paolo
http://paolo.ciarrocchi.googlepages.com/