From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.9 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI, SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B681B1F9FD for ; Tue, 16 Feb 2021 15:48:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S230031AbhBPPqk (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Feb 2021 10:46:40 -0500 Received: from cloud.peff.net ([104.130.231.41]:34354 "EHLO cloud.peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S230001AbhBPPqj (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Feb 2021 10:46:39 -0500 Received: (qmail 13659 invoked by uid 109); 16 Feb 2021 15:45:58 -0000 Received: from Unknown (HELO peff.net) (10.0.1.2) by cloud.peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with ESMTP; Tue, 16 Feb 2021 15:45:58 +0000 Authentication-Results: cloud.peff.net; auth=none Received: (qmail 25856 invoked by uid 111); 16 Feb 2021 15:45:57 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with (TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Tue, 16 Feb 2021 10:45:57 -0500 Authentication-Results: peff.net; auth=none Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 10:45:57 -0500 From: Jeff King To: Junio C Hamano Cc: Jan =?utf-8?B?4oCcS2hhcmRpeOKAnSBTdGFuxJtr?= , git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: git-send-email: smtpserver in $HOME Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 06:14:39PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jan “Khardix” Staněk writes: > > > Would it be feasible to treat the `smtpserver` as path option > > and expand `~`/`~user` paths? > > Would it break anything > > (i.e., is `~` a valid character for beginning of a hostname)? > > I haven't given too much thought, but offhand do not think of a > reason why a change like the attached would break things. I agree it's unlikely to break anything. Still, it seems a bit unusual for an executed program to handle tilde like this. The usual mechanism is for us to run it with the shell and expect to find it in $PATH. It looks like there's some weirdness here, though; $smtp_server may be a hostname, and it looks like we use "/" to distinguish a file path. I wonder if allowing "!my-sendmail" would be more consistent with other parts of Git (not to mention more flexible). -Peff