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From: "Drew DeVault" <sir@cmpwn.com>
To: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Cc: <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] send-email: clarify SMTP encryption settings
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2021 21:42:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJNUBUZNAXE.283NJ968IDN2X@taiga> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YHEB1ClofnD6nQWA@camp.crustytoothpaste.net>

On Fri Apr 9, 2021 at 9:39 PM EDT, brian m. carlson wrote:
> Since I agree that "ssl/tls" may be a bit confusing, maybe we could call
> that option "wrapped" or "tunneled"? Other names are possible, of
> course.

I would prefer to name the options after the terms we can expect the
user to find in their mail service provider's documentation, hence
SSL/TLS and STARTTLS. Though I can see the confusion in including the
slash, I'll figure something else out.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-10  1:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-09 21:18 [PATCH] send-email: clarify SMTP encryption settings Drew DeVault
2021-04-09 22:04 ` Eric Sunshine
2021-04-09 23:14 ` Georgios Kontaxis
2021-04-09 23:39   ` Drew DeVault
2021-04-10  0:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-04-10  0:57   ` Drew DeVault
2021-04-10  1:09     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-04-11  5:48   ` Bagas Sanjaya
2021-04-10  1:39 ` brian m. carlson
2021-04-10  1:42   ` Drew DeVault [this message]
2021-04-10 16:43     ` Junio C Hamano

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