Subject: Re: patch submission process, was Re: [PATCH v6 06/16] merge_recursive: abort properly upon errors

From: Eric Wong <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2016 21:43:25 +0000

Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> 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 :<