Re: [RFC/PATCH] send-email: die if CA path doesn't exist

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 10:17:08PM +0000, John Keeping wrote:

> I wonder if we should do this to help debug SSL issues:
> 
> -- >8 --
> diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
> index e057051..6d4e0ee 100755
> --- a/git-send-email.perl
> +++ b/git-send-email.perl
> @@ -1317,6 +1317,10 @@ Message-Id: $message_id
>  			require Net::SMTP::SSL;
>  			$smtp_domain ||= maildomain();
>  			require IO::Socket::SSL;
> +			if ($debug_net_smtp) {
> +				no warnings 'once';
> +				$IO::Socket::SSL::DEBUG = 1;
> +			}
>  			# Net::SMTP::SSL->new() does not forward any SSL options
>  			IO::Socket::SSL::set_client_defaults(
>  				ssl_verify_params());
> -- 8< --

That certainly looks like a reasonable thing to be doing, assuming that
the output from IO::Socket::SSL is generally helpful.

> > > Maybe we shouldn't worry too much about that, but should instead put the
> > > invalid path into the error message:
> > > 
> > > 	die "CA path \"$smtp_ssl_cert_path\" does not exist.";
> > 
> > Given what I wrote above, yeah, I'd agree that is sufficient (and I do
> > think mentioning the path is helpful).
> 
> I'll change it to this in a re-roll.

Thanks.

-Peff