From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 13:44:10 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: CURLOPT_MAIL_FROM: document the bracket situation
X-Git-Tag: curl-7_21_4~124
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=16c4314a21c5918ddb90e537217e0a2406f2f410;p=curl

CURLOPT_MAIL_FROM: document the bracket situation
---

diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
index 3d76b6616..a725b33cb 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
@@ -1189,6 +1189,10 @@ option is set to zero. (added in 7.16.2)
 Pass a pointer to a zero terminated string as parameter. It will be used to
 specify the sender address in a mail when sending an SMTP mail with libcurl.
 
+An originator email address in SMTP lingo is specified within angle brackets
+(<>) which libcurl will not add for you before version 7.21.4. Failing to
+provide such brackets may cause the server to reject your mail.
+
 (Added in 7.20.0)
 .IP CURLOPT_MAIL_RCPT
 Pass a pointer to a linked list of recipients to pass to the server in your