1git-imap-send(1) 2================ 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-imap-send - Send a collection of patches from stdin to an IMAP folder 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11'git imap-send' 12 13 14DESCRIPTION 15----------- 16This command uploads a mailbox generated with 'git format-patch' 17into an IMAP drafts folder. This allows patches to be sent as 18other email is when using mail clients that cannot read mailbox 19files directly. 20 21Typical usage is something like: 22 23git format-patch --signoff --stdout --attach origin | git imap-send 24 25 26CONFIGURATION 27------------- 28 29To use the tool, imap.folder and either imap.tunnel or imap.host must be set 30to appropriate values. 31 32Variables 33~~~~~~~~~ 34 35imap.folder:: 36 The folder to drop the mails into, which is typically the Drafts 37 folder. For example: "INBOX.Drafts", "INBOX/Drafts" or 38 "[Gmail]/Drafts". Required to use imap-send. 39 40imap.tunnel:: 41 Command used to setup a tunnel to the IMAP server through which 42 commands will be piped instead of using a direct network connection 43 to the server. Required when imap.host is not set to use imap-send. 44 45imap.host:: 46 A URL identifying the server. Use a `imap://` prefix for non-secure 47 connections and a `imaps://` prefix for secure connections. 48 Ignored when imap.tunnel is set, but required to use imap-send 49 otherwise. 50 51imap.user:: 52 The username to use when logging in to the server. 53 54imap.pass:: 55 The password to use when logging in to the server. 56 57imap.port:: 58 An integer port number to connect to on the server. 59 Defaults to 143 for imap:// hosts and 993 for imaps:// hosts. 60 Ignored when imap.tunnel is set. 61 62imap.sslverify:: 63 A boolean to enable/disable verification of the server certificate 64 used by the SSL/TLS connection. Default is `true`. Ignored when 65 imap.tunnel is set. 66 67imap.preformattedHTML:: 68 A boolean to enable/disable the use of html encoding when sending 69 a patch. An html encoded patch will be bracketed with <pre> 70 and have a content type of text/html. Ironically, enabling this 71 option causes Thunderbird to send the patch as a plain/text, 72 format=fixed email. Default is `false`. 73 74imap.authMethod:: 75 Specify authenticate method for authentication with IMAP server. 76 Current supported method is 'CRAM-MD5' only. 77 78Examples 79~~~~~~~~ 80 81Using tunnel mode: 82 83.......................... 84[imap] 85 folder = "INBOX.Drafts" 86 tunnel = "ssh -q -C user@example.com /usr/bin/imapd ./Maildir 2> /dev/null" 87.......................... 88 89Using direct mode: 90 91......................... 92[imap] 93 folder = "INBOX.Drafts" 94 host = imap://imap.example.com 95 user = bob 96 pass = p4ssw0rd 97.......................... 98 99Using direct mode with SSL: 100 101......................... 102[imap] 103 folder = "INBOX.Drafts" 104 host = imaps://imap.example.com 105 user = bob 106 pass = p4ssw0rd 107 port = 123 108 sslverify = false 109.......................... 110 111 112CAUTION 113------- 114It is still your responsibility to make sure that the email message 115sent by your email program meets the standards of your project. 116Many projects do not like patches to be attached. Some mail 117agents will transform patches (e.g. wrap lines, send them as 118format=flowed) in ways that make them fail. You will get angry 119flames ridiculing you if you don't check this. 120 121Thunderbird in particular is known to be problematic. Thunderbird 122users may wish to visit this web page for more information: 123 http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plain_text_e-mail_-_Thunderbird#Completely_plain_email 124 125 126BUGS 127---- 128Doesn't handle lines starting with "From " in the message body. 129 130 131Author 132------ 133Derived from isync 1.0.1 by Mike McCormack. 134 135Documentation 136-------------- 137Documentation by Mike McCormack 138 139GIT 140--- 141Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite