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 _______________________________________________ libav-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libav.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-devel
