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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Somebody mentioned "configuring it is hard--why does the user have
> to know SMTP subtleties", and that may be a valid complaint against
> the primary part of send-email.  The solution for that is not to
> discard it with bathwater, but make it just as easy as other MSAs,
> say, Thunderbird, to configure for an average user who can configure
> these other MUAs.

Sadly, the average user does not use an MUA, SMTP or IMAP, anymore.
It's all webmail or apps using proprietary protocols.
Embrace, extend, extinguish :<