Hi,

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Diego Biurrun <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 04:10:42PM +0100, Attila Kinali wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Or - as in the case of git-send-email, by being an MTA on its own.

It can also use external ones, e.g. gmail. Just google git send-email
+ your email provider and it'll come up somewhere.

We're in the 90s howto land all over again. :-).

Ronald
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