Re: git send-email friendly smtp provider anyone?

[Noralf Trønnes]

Den 21.11.2022 16.19, skrev Maxime Ripard:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 12:48:52PM +0100, Noralf Trønnes wrote:
>> A couple of years ago my email provider blocked me from using git
>> send-email with their smtp server. So I switched to the one my ISP
>> provides. Now my ISP have outsourced their email service so the first 3
>> emails gets through and the rest looks like it ends up in a tar pit or
>> something, 18 hours later and 5 of 7 emails have gotten through. I have
>> asked them about this, but I fear the answer will be this is not
>> supported since they now don't have the service in-house anymore. I'm
>> waiting for a reply.
>>
>> Today I tried sendinblue.com since they have a free plan, but they
>> insert <br> in the emails so that didn't work out. They also have some
>> kind of queue, after 1 hour 6 of 7 emails have gotten through.
>>
>> Does anyone have an smtp provider to recommend that works with git
>> send-email and that sends out all the emails at once?
> 
> I'm using fastmail and am very happy about it so far.
> 
> Otherwise, you might consider using:
> https://b4.docs.kernel.org/en/latest/contributor/send.html#authenticating-with-the-web-submission-endpoint
> 

That's an interesting option. I did briefly look at b4 a few months back
but it looked like it was under heavy development so I figured I'd wait
before trying it out. I think I'll give b4 a spin to see how it works, I
wonder how it handles patch changelogs.

Noralf.