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authorJan Viktorin <viktorin@rehivetech.com>2015-08-12 01:39:44 +0200
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2015-08-17 13:53:16 -0700
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send-email: provide whitelist of SMTP AUTH mechanisms
When sending an e-mail, the client and server must agree on an authentication mechanism. Some servers (due to misconfiguration or a bug) deny valid credentials for certain mechanisms. In this patch, a new option --smtp-auth and configuration entry smtpAuth are introduced. If smtp_auth is defined, it works as a whitelist of allowed mechanisms for authentication selected from the ones supported by the installed SASL perl library. Signed-off-by: Jan Viktorin <viktorin@rehivetech.com> Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -171,6 +171,19 @@ Sending
to determine your FQDN automatically. Default is the value of
'sendemail.smtpDomain'.
+--smtp-auth=<mechanisms>::
+ Whitespace-separated list of allowed SMTP-AUTH mechanisms. This setting
+ forces using only the listed mechanisms. Example:
++
+------
+$ git send-email --smtp-auth="PLAIN LOGIN GSSAPI" ...
+------
++
+If at least one of the specified mechanisms matches the ones advertised by the
+SMTP server and if it is supported by the utilized SASL library, the mechanism
+is used for authentication. If neither 'sendemail.smtpAuth' nor '--smtp-auth'
+is specified, all mechanisms supported by the SASL library can be used.
+
--smtp-pass[=<password>]::
Password for SMTP-AUTH. The argument is optional: If no
argument is specified, then the empty string is used as