"Mike Melanson" <[email protected]> writes:

>> On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 23:09:47 -0800
>> Mike Melanson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Yeah, 'git show' does work. Now to see what 'git send-email' does with
>>> that patch. How does a command line tool interact with SMTP anyway?
>>
>> As they have been always doing: assuming that a unix host is
>> running a correctly configured smtp server that knows how to
>> send mails out into the big bad internet.
>>
>> In detail: there is a /usr/bin/sendmail (yes, it comes from sendmail,
>> but all(?) MTAs provide such a binary), which acts as a command line
>> interface to add mails to the MTA queue.
>
> I had to go the external server route. That meant specifying
> --smtp-encryption, --smtp-server, --smtp-server-port, --smtp-user, and
> also --smtp-debug when I couldn't get those other options just right. :-)

All of those can be set in your ~/.gitconfig to save some typing.

-- 
Måns Rullgård
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