specify a full pathname of a sendmail-like program instead;
the program must support the `-i` option. Default value can
be specified by the `sendemail.smtpServer` configuration
- option; the built-in default is `/usr/sbin/sendmail` or
- `/usr/lib/sendmail` if such program is available, or
- `localhost` otherwise.
+ option; the built-in default is to search for `sendmail` in
+ `/usr/sbin`, `/usr/lib` and $PATH if such program is
+ available, falling back to `localhost` otherwise.
--smtp-server-port=<port>::
Specifies a port different from the default port (SMTP
commands and replies will be printed. Useful to debug TLS
connection and authentication problems.
+--batch-size=<num>::
+ Some email servers (e.g. smtp.163.com) limit the number emails to be
+ sent per session (connection) and this will lead to a faliure when
+ sending many messages. With this option, send-email will disconnect after
+ sending $<num> messages and wait for a few seconds (see --relogin-delay)
+ and reconnect, to work around such a limit. You may want to
+ use some form of credential helper to avoid having to retype
+ your password every time this happens. Defaults to the
+ `sendemail.smtpBatchSize` configuration variable.
+
+--relogin-delay=<int>::
+ Waiting $<int> seconds before reconnecting to SMTP server. Used together
+ with --batch-size option. Defaults to the `sendemail.smtpReloginDelay`
+ configuration variable.
+
Automating
~~~~~~~~~~
Currently, validation means the following:
+
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+ * Invoke the sendemail-validate hook if present (see linkgit:githooks[5]).
* Warn of patches that contain lines longer than 998 characters; this
is due to SMTP limits as described by http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt.
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