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From:   Gregory Anders <greg@gpanders.com>
To:     Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] git-send-email: use ! to indicate relative path to
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On Tue, 11 May 2021 15:03 -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>Is there any particular reason why we are checking for an absolute 
>path?

The existing behavior is that the value of smtpServer is a hostname of a 
server, *unless* it is an absolute path in which case it is interpreted 
as a program to use to send the mail (e.g. a sendmail alternative or 
msmtp).