Subject: send-email: Net::SMTP::starttls was introduced in v3.01 We cannot rely on the starttls method being present in the copy of Net::SMTP shipped with perl until v5.21.5~169 (Update libnet to CPAN version 3.01, 2014-10-10).
Reported-by: Brandon Williams <bmw...@google.com> Reported-by: Eric Biggers <ebigge...@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> --- Hi Eric, Eric Biggers wrote: > There seems to be a bug in 'git send-email' caused by this commit: > > commit 0ead000c3aca13a10ae51a3c74c866981e0d33b8 > Author: Dennis Kaarsemaker <den...@kaarsemaker.net> > Date: Fri Mar 24 22:37:32 2017 +0100 > > send-email: Net::SMTP::SSL is obsolete, use only when necessary > > When running git send-email I get the following error: > > Can't locate object method "starttls" via package "Net::SMTP" at > /usr/lib/git-core/git-send-email line 1410. > > The perl version is 5.18.2, and the Net::SMTP version is 2.31. Thanks for reporting. Does this patch help? Regards, Jonathan git-send-email.perl | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl index 0d90439d9..3441e3cf5 100755 --- a/git-send-email.perl +++ b/git-send-email.perl @@ -1354,7 +1354,7 @@ EOF } require Net::SMTP; - my $use_net_smtp_ssl = version->parse($Net::SMTP::VERSION) < version->parse("1.28"); + my $use_net_smtp_ssl = version->parse($Net::SMTP::VERSION) < version->parse("3.01"); $smtp_domain ||= maildomain(); if ($smtp_encryption eq 'ssl') { -- 2.13.0.506.g27d5fe0cd