Just like Gmail and Outlook, Yahoo is another popular email service provider. This commit adds instructions for Yahoo users to be able to use it with `git send-email`. It also adds instructions for OAauth2.0 authentication for the same, and adds a link for a credential helper. Signed-off-by: Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@xxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-send-email.adoc | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Documentation/gitcredentials.adoc | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 34 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.adoc b/Documentation/git-send-email.adoc index 26fda63c2f..61a2d03546 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-send-email.adoc +++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.adoc @@ -561,6 +561,35 @@ SMTP server with `git send-email`: smtpAuth = XOAUTH2 ---- +Use Yahoo as the SMTP Server +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +Just like Gmail, you can use an app-specific password for Yahoo as well. Visit +https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN15241.html to get instructions for generating +them. After generating, edit `~/.gitconfig` to specify your account settings +for Yahoo and use its SMTP server with `git send-email`: + +---- +[sendemail] + smtpEncryption = tls + smtpServer = smtp.mail.yahoo.com + smtpUser = yourname@xxxxxxxxx + smtpServerPort = 587 +---- + +If you wish to use OAuth2.0 rather than an app-specific password, you can use +either `OAUTHBEARER` or `XOAUTH2` as the authentication method. As an example, +if you want to use `OAUTHBEARER`, edit your `~/.gitconfig` file and add +`smtpAuth = OAUTHBEARER` to your account settings: + +---- +[sendemail] + smtpEncryption = tls + smtpServer = smtp.mail.yahoo.com + smtpUser = yourname@xxxxxxxxx + smtpServerPort = 587 + smtpAuth = OAUTHBEARER +---- + SENDING PATCHES --------------- Once your commits are ready to be sent to the mailing list, run the @@ -588,6 +617,9 @@ are also available: - https://github.com/AdityaGarg8/git-credential-email[git-credential-outlook] (cross platform, dedicated helper for authenticating Microsoft Outlook accounts) + - https://github.com/AdityaGarg8/git-credential-email[git-credential-yahoo] + (cross platform, dedicated helper for authenticating Yahoo accounts) + You can also see linkgit:gitcredentials[7] for more OAuth based authentication helpers. diff --git a/Documentation/gitcredentials.adoc b/Documentation/gitcredentials.adoc index b49923db02..0c4fd0e8e7 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitcredentials.adoc +++ b/Documentation/gitcredentials.adoc @@ -137,6 +137,8 @@ Popular helpers with OAuth support include: - https://github.com/AdityaGarg8/git-credential-email[git-credential-outlook] (cross platform, dedicated helper to authenticate Microsoft Outlook accounts for linkgit:git-send-email[1]) + - https://github.com/AdityaGarg8/git-credential-email[git-credential-yahoo] (cross platform, dedicated helper to authenticate Yahoo accounts for linkgit:git-send-email[1]) + CREDENTIAL CONTEXTS ------------------- -- 2.43.0
