Error while sending patch using git send-email

[Alexandru Juncu]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Amit Mehta <gmate.amit at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> This is not a Linux Kernel related query but is rather on the infrastructure to
> manage patches using git. Before asking here, I did some search on Internet and
> also posted this query in a different Linux forum but no luck so far. Hence
> thought of asking here as someone might have faced this issue, while using the
> git send-email feature. I've installed git-core and git-send-email packages on
> my Ubuntu machine and I'm using git to generate patch. Now I want to send this
> patch, but while doing so, git returns with following error:
>
> "5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first."
>
> Some information regarding my setup:
> slackjaw at swamp:~/linux-next$ cat /etc/issue
> Ubuntu 11.10 \n \l
>
> slackjaw at swamp:~/linux-next$ cat ~/.gitconfig
> [user]
> name = Amit
> email = <XYZ at xyz.com>
> [sendemail]
> smtpserver = smtp.googlemail.com

Try adding to the [sendmail] directive:

smtpserverport = 587
smtpencryption = tls

Also, don't know if it matters, but I have :
smtpserver = smtp.gmail.com

>
> git command to send patch:
> slackjaw at swamp:~/linux-next$ git send-email --to "abc at xyz.com"
> 0001-Adding-debugging-level-for-printk.patch
>
> The above command returns with error message as mentioned above, whereas my
> expectation was that git should ask me to enter my password and then send the
> mail to the destination mail id.
>
> I'm able to send and receive mails when I use thunderbird's default settings
> (In-fact I 'm sending this mail through Thunderbird) which means that there is
> no issue with the port number or the authentication method for the outgoing mails.
>
> -Amit
>
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