Wolfgang Denk wrote:
Dear Stefan Roese,
In message 200808271149.46867.sr@denx.de you wrote:
Hmmm. Then I'm really curious how git-send-email know to which SMTP server to send this mail.
It runs "sendmail" to send the message, assuming you have a working mail configuration on your host.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
"...assuming you have a working mail configuration on your host." Winders hosts don't have a working mail configuration ("sendmail" or localhost port 25 support), which means that the people that need git-send-email worst (those stuck in a Winders-centric corporate borg) require setup and luck.
If you are a borger (that would be Germanization of "lives in a borg," IIRC), your Exchange server may support port 25 (IIUC, it is an optional configuration item, but probably configured).
You first need to know the name of your Exchange server. 1. In Outlook, select the menu selection Tools/Email Accounts which brings up a dialog allowing you to "View or change existing e-mail accounts" 2. Click the "Next" button which brings up the next dialog box. 3. Select the "Microsoft Exchange Server" account and click the "Change" button. 4. This dialog box shows your Exchange server name. Hopefully it supports port 25 communications. 5. Click the "Cancel" button to exit without changing your Outlook setup.
You may need to authenticate, in which case you would use "domain\user" (where "domain" is your ActiveDirectory domain, "user" is your user name, and the backslash *is* a backslash and may need to be quoted/doubled).
I have done this with Thunderbird[1] on Windows (check my headers, but please don't tell the IT staff ;-), but I have *not* done it with git-send-email. If anybody tries this, please let us know how it worked out (success or failure).
Thanks & good luck, gvb
[1] The Exchange server I connect to actually supports IMAP as well as port 25 and it works very well (surprisingly).