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NAME

git-imap-send - Send a collection of patches from stdin to an IMAP
folder

SYNOPSIS

git imap-send [-v] [-q] [--[no-]curl]

DESCRIPTION

This command uploads a mailbox generated with git format-patch into
an IMAP drafts folder. This allows patches to be sent as other email
is when using mail clients that cannot read mailbox files directly.
The command also works with any general mailbox in which emails have
the fields "From", "Date", and "Subject" in that order.

Typical usage is something like:

git format-patch --signoff --stdout --attach origin | git imap-send

OPTIONS

-v, --verbose
Be verbose.

-q, --quiet
Be quiet.

--curl
Use libcurl to communicate with the IMAP server, unless tunneling
into it. Ignored if Git was built without the
USE_CURL_FOR_IMAP_SEND option set.

--no-curl
Talk to the IMAP server using git's own IMAP routines instead of
using libcurl. Ignored if Git was built with the NO_OPENSSL
option set.

CONFIGURATION

To use the tool, imap.folder and either imap.tunnel or imap.host must
be set to appropriate values.

Everything above this line in this section isn't included from the
git-config(1) documentation. The content that follows is the same as
what's found there:

imap.folder
The folder to drop the mails into, which is typically the Drafts
folder. For example: "INBOX.Drafts", "INBOX/Drafts" or
"[Gmail]/Drafts". Required.

imap.tunnel
Command used to set up a tunnel to the IMAP server through which
commands will be piped instead of using a direct network
connection to the server. Required when imap.host is not set.

imap.host
A URL identifying the server. Use an imap:// prefix for
non-secure connections and an imaps:// prefix for secure
connections. Ignored when imap.tunnel is set, but required
otherwise.

imap.user
The username to use when logging in to the server.

imap.pass
The password to use when logging in to the server.

imap.port
An integer port number to connect to on the server. Defaults to
143 for imap:// hosts and 993 for imaps:// hosts. Ignored when
imap.tunnel is set.

imap.sslverify
A boolean to enable/disable verification of the server
certificate used by the SSL/TLS connection. Default is true.
Ignored when imap.tunnel is set.

imap.preformattedHTML
A boolean to enable/disable the use of html encoding when sending
a patch. An html encoded patch will be bracketed with <pre> and
have a content type of text/html. Ironically, enabling this
option causes Thunderbird to send the patch as a plain/text,
format=fixed email. Default is false.

imap.authMethod
Specify the authentication method for authenticating with the
IMAP server. If Git was built with the NO_CURL option, or if your
curl version is older than 7.34.0, or if you're running
git-imap-send with the --no-curl option, the only supported
method is CRAM-MD5. If this is not set then git imap-send uses
the basic IMAP plaintext LOGIN command.

EXAMPLES

Using tunnel mode:

[imap]
folder = "INBOX.Drafts"
tunnel = "ssh -q -C user@example.com /usr/bin/imapd ./Maildir 2> /dev/null"

Using direct mode:

[imap]
folder = "INBOX.Drafts"
host = imap://imap.example.com
user = bob
pass = p4ssw0rd

Using direct mode with SSL:

[imap]
folder = "INBOX.Drafts"
host = imaps://imap.example.com
user = bob
pass = p4ssw0rd
port = 123
; sslVerify = false

Note

You may want to use sslVerify=false while troubleshooting, if you
suspect that the reason you are having trouble connecting is
because the certificate you use at the private server example.com
you are trying to set up (or have set up) may not be verified
correctly.

Using Gmail's IMAP interface:

[imap]
folder = "[Gmail]/Drafts"
host = imaps://imap.gmail.com
user = user@gmail.com
port = 993

Note

You might need to instead use: folder = "[Google Mail]/Drafts" if
you get an error that the "Folder doesn't exist".

Note

If your Gmail account is set to another language than English,
the name of the "Drafts" folder will be localized.

Once the commits are ready to be sent, run the following command:

$ git format-patch --cover-letter -M --stdout origin/master | git imap-send

Just make sure to disable line wrapping in the email client (Gmail's
web interface will wrap lines no matter what, so you need to use a
real IMAP client).

CAUTION

It is still your responsibility to make sure that the email message
sent by your email program meets the standards of your project. Many
projects do not like patches to be attached. Some mail agents will
transform patches (e.g. wrap lines, send them as format=flowed) in
ways that make them fail. You will get angry flames ridiculing you if
you don't check this.

Thunderbird in particular is known to be problematic. Thunderbird
users may wish to visit this web page for more information:
https://kb.mozillazine.org/Plain_text_e-mail_-_Thunderbird#Completely_plain_email

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