Subject: Re: [PATCH] send-email: pass smtp hostname and port to Authen::SASL

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2026 06:44:55 -0800

Aditya Garg <[email-masked]> writes:

[administrivia]

    Please do not send patch e-mails directly at me, unless you know
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> Starting from version 2.2000, Authen::SASL supports passing the SMTP
> server hostname and port to the OAUTHBEARER string passed via SMTP AUTH.
> Add support for the same in git-send-email.

The proposed log message should answer these questions as well:

   What happens with version before 2.2000?  Is it safe to
   unconditionally add parameters like this patch does, and why?

> Link: https://metacpan.org/pod/Authen::SASL::Perl::OAUTHBEARER
>
> Signed-off-by: Aditya Garg <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  git-send-email.perl | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
> index eed5420882..0ac4d634e8 100755
> --- a/git-send-email.perl
> +++ b/git-send-email.perl
> @@ -1474,6 +1474,8 @@ sub smtp_auth_maybe {
>  						user     => $cred->{'username'},
>  						pass     => $cred->{'password'},
>  						authname => $cred->{'username'},
> +						host     => $smtp_server,
> +						(defined $smtp_server_port ? (port => $smtp_server_port) : ()),
>  					}
>  				);
>  				$result = $smtp->auth($sasl);

Thanks.