From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add sendmail -f support to git-send-email.
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:00:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v6483u95i.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070410223826.GH2813@planck.djpig.de> (Frank Lichtenheld's message of "Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:38:27 +0200")
Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de> writes:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 03:02:13PM -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
>> Some mailing lists use the envelope sender instead of the actual from address,
>> and this can be broken in git-send-email. This patch sets the -f argument to
>> the sendmail binary, using the address of the patch author.
>
> At least some MTAs (exim is the one I know for sure) can restrict -f
> usage to some users and deny it for others. Don't know how much this
> would really be a problem, but using -f unconditionally might be a bad
> idea none-the-less.
I thought I saw the '-f' patch somewhere on the list in the last
several weeks and there was a discussion on this topic that
followed the patch. Am I hallucinating, or was it not applied
because there were some issues?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-10 23:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-10 22:02 [PATCH] Add sendmail -f support to git-send-email Robin H. Johnson
2007-04-10 22:02 ` [PATCH] Make envelope-sender fully configurable Robin H. Johnson
2007-04-10 22:06 ` [PATCH] Add sendmail -f support to git-send-email Robin H. Johnson
2007-04-10 22:38 ` Frank Lichtenheld
2007-04-10 22:42 ` Robin H. Johnson
2007-04-10 23:00 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2007-04-11 0:38 ` Frank Lichtenheld
2007-04-11 5:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-11 8:57 ` Lukas Sandström
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