gitgit-send-email

How can we sanely verify git send-email configuration settings?

Using git 2.5.

Is there a clever, or official, way to verify that git send-email is able to connect to, and authenticate with, my smtp server? I've configured git, but I don't seem to be able to successfully use git send-email.

When I execute git send-email --to=mytest@example.com I either see:

[Net::SMTP] Connection closed at /usr/libexec/git-core/git-send-email line 1348.

Or, when using tls in my config, I see:

Died at /usr/libexec/git-core/git-send-email line 1348.

My ~/.gitconfig seems correct:

[user]
  name = John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt
  email = jjjs@example.com
[sendemail]
  smtpserver = mail.example.com
  smtpuser = *****
  smtpserverport = **
  confirm = auto
  smtpauth = PLAIN
  smtpencryption = tls

This is a pain in the arse to troubleshoot. Is there some kind of git send-email --verify command that can sanely tell me that my config is sound?

Solution

  • Use the --smtp-debug=1 option. This allows seeing the smtp communication output.