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 74Examples 75~~~~~~~~ 76 77Using tunnel mode: 78 79.......................... 80[imap] 81 folder = "INBOX.Drafts" 82 tunnel = "ssh -q -C user@example.com /usr/bin/imapd ./Maildir 2> /dev/null" 83.......................... 84 85Using direct mode: 86 87......................... 88[imap] 89 folder = "INBOX.Drafts" 90 host = imap://imap.example.com 91 user = bob 92 pass = p4ssw0rd 93.......................... 94 95Using direct mode with SSL: 96 97......................... 98[imap] 99 folder = "INBOX.Drafts" 100 host = imaps://imap.example.com 101 user = bob 102 pass = p4ssw0rd 103 port = 123 104 sslverify = false 105.......................... 106 107 108CAUTION 109------- 110It is still your responsibility to make sure that the email message 111sent by your email program meets the standards of your project. 112Many projects do not like patches to be attached. Some mail 113agents will transform patches (e.g. wrap lines, send them as 114format=flowed) in ways that make them fail. You will get angry 115flames ridiculing you if you don't check this. 116 117Thunderbird in particular is known to be problematic. Thunderbird 118users may wish to visit this web page for more information: 119 http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plain_text_e-mail_-_Thunderbird#Completely_plain_email 120 121 122BUGS 123---- 124Doesn't handle lines starting with "From " in the message body. 125 126 127Author 128------ 129Derived from isync 1.0.1 by Mike McCormack. 130 131Documentation 132-------------- 133Documentation by Mike McCormack 134 135GIT 136--- 137Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite