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authorLibravatar Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>2008-06-25 21:42:43 +0200
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2008-06-25 22:34:32 -0700
commitf6bebd121ac531871c4cee576b0baf6814099425 (patch)
treed67476ef9d5cc8ec52c6fc6df5aa493f5e20e891 /Documentation
parentverify-pack: test for detection of index v2 object CRC mismatch (diff)
downloadtgif-f6bebd121ac531871c4cee576b0baf6814099425.tar.xz
git-send-email: add support for TLS via Net::SMTP::SSL
We do this by handing over the Net::SMTP instance to Net::SMTP::SSL, which avoids Net::SMTP::TLS and its weird error checking. This trick is due to Brian Evins. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-send-email.txt16
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
index 251d661afd..dc7eb7bd4e 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
@@ -133,10 +133,13 @@ or on the command line. If a username has been specified (with
specified (with --smtp-pass or a configuration variable), then the
user is prompted for a password while the input is masked for privacy.
+--smtp-encryption::
+ Specify the encryption to use, either 'ssl' or 'tls'. Any other
+ value reverts to plain SMTP. Default is the value of
+ 'sendemail.smtpencryption'.
+
--smtp-ssl::
- If set, connects to the SMTP server using SSL.
- Default is the value of the 'sendemail.smtpssl' configuration value;
- if that is unspecified, does not use SSL.
+ Legacy alias for '--smtp-encryption=ssl'.
--subject::
Specify the initial subject of the email thread.
@@ -229,8 +232,13 @@ sendemail.smtpuser::
sendemail.smtppass::
Default SMTP-AUTH password.
+sendemail.smtpencryption::
+ Default encryption method. Use 'ssl' for SSL (and specify an
+ appropriate port), or 'tls' for TLS. Takes precedence over
+ 'smtpssl' if both are specified.
+
sendemail.smtpssl::
- Boolean value specifying the default to the '--smtp-ssl' parameter.
+ Legacy boolean that sets 'smtpencryption=ssl' if enabled.
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