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[verse] 12'git imap-send' [-v] [-q] [--[no-]curl] 13 14 15DESCRIPTION 16----------- 17This command uploads a mailbox generated with 'git format-patch' 18into an IMAP drafts folder. This allows patches to be sent as 19other email is when using mail clients that cannot read mailbox 20files directly. The command also works with any general mailbox 21in which emails have the fields "From", "Date", and "Subject" in 22that order. 23 24Typical usage is something like: 25 26git format-patch --signoff --stdout --attach origin | git imap-send 27 28 29OPTIONS 30------- 31 32-v:: 33--verbose:: 34 Be verbose. 35 36-q:: 37--quiet:: 38 Be quiet. 39 40--curl:: 41 Use libcurl to communicate with the IMAP server, unless tunneling 42 into it. Ignored if Git was built without the USE_CURL_FOR_IMAP_SEND 43 option set. 44 45--no-curl:: 46 Talk to the IMAP server using git's own IMAP routines instead of 47 using libcurl. Ignored if Git was built with the NO_OPENSSL option 48 set. 49 50 51CONFIGURATION 52------------- 53 54To use the tool, imap.folder and either imap.tunnel or imap.host must be set 55to appropriate values. 56 57Variables 58~~~~~~~~~ 59 60imap.folder:: 61 The folder to drop the mails into, which is typically the Drafts 62 folder. For example: "INBOX.Drafts", "INBOX/Drafts" or 63 "[Gmail]/Drafts". Required. 64 65imap.tunnel:: 66 Command used to setup a tunnel to the IMAP server through which 67 commands will be piped instead of using a direct network connection 68 to the server. Required when imap.host is not set. 69 70imap.host:: 71 A URL identifying the server. Use a `imap://` prefix for non-secure 72 connections and a `imaps://` prefix for secure connections. 73 Ignored when imap.tunnel is set, but required otherwise. 74 75imap.user:: 76 The username to use when logging in to the server. 77 78imap.pass:: 79 The password to use when logging in to the server. 80 81imap.port:: 82 An integer port number to connect to on the server. 83 Defaults to 143 for imap:// hosts and 993 for imaps:// hosts. 84 Ignored when imap.tunnel is set. 85 86imap.sslverify:: 87 A boolean to enable/disable verification of the server certificate 88 used by the SSL/TLS connection. Default is `true`. Ignored when 89 imap.tunnel is set. 90 91imap.preformattedHTML:: 92 A boolean to enable/disable the use of html encoding when sending 93 a patch. An html encoded patch will be bracketed with <pre> 94 and have a content type of text/html. Ironically, enabling this 95 option causes Thunderbird to send the patch as a plain/text, 96 format=fixed email. Default is `false`. 97 98imap.authMethod:: 99 Specify authenticate method for authentication with IMAP server. 100 If Git was built with the NO_CURL option, or if your curl version is older 101 than 7.34.0, or if you're running git-imap-send with the `--no-curl` 102 option, the only supported method is 'CRAM-MD5'. If this is not set 103 then 'git imap-send' uses the basic IMAP plaintext LOGIN command. 104 105Examples 106~~~~~~~~ 107 108Using tunnel mode: 109 110.......................... 111[imap] 112 folder = "INBOX.Drafts" 113 tunnel = "ssh -q -C user@example.com /usr/bin/imapd ./Maildir 2> /dev/null" 114.......................... 115 116Using direct mode: 117 118......................... 119[imap] 120 folder = "INBOX.Drafts" 121 host = imap://imap.example.com 122 user = bob 123 pass = p4ssw0rd 124......................... 125 126Using direct mode with SSL: 127 128......................... 129[imap] 130 folder = "INBOX.Drafts" 131 host = imaps://imap.example.com 132 user = bob 133 pass = p4ssw0rd 134 port = 123 135 sslverify = false 136......................... 137 138 139EXAMPLE 140------- 141To submit patches using GMail's IMAP interface, first, edit your ~/.gitconfig 142to specify your account settings: 143 144--------- 145[imap] 146 folder = "[Gmail]/Drafts" 147 host = imaps://imap.gmail.com 148 user = user@gmail.com 149 port = 993 150 sslverify = false 151--------- 152 153You might need to instead use: folder = "[Google Mail]/Drafts" if you get an error 154that the "Folder doesn't exist". 155 156Once the commits are ready to be sent, run the following command: 157 158 $ git format-patch --cover-letter -M --stdout origin/master | git imap-send 159 160Just make sure to disable line wrapping in the email client (GMail's web 161interface will wrap lines no matter what, so you need to use a real 162IMAP client). 163 164CAUTION 165------- 166It is still your responsibility to make sure that the email message 167sent by your email program meets the standards of your project. 168Many projects do not like patches to be attached. Some mail 169agents will transform patches (e.g. wrap lines, send them as 170format=flowed) in ways that make them fail. You will get angry 171flames ridiculing you if you don't check this. 172 173Thunderbird in particular is known to be problematic. Thunderbird 174users may wish to visit this web page for more information: 175 http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plain_text_e-mail_-_Thunderbird#Completely_plain_email 176 177SEE ALSO 178-------- 179linkgit:git-format-patch[1], linkgit:git-send-email[1], mbox(5) 180 181GIT 182--- 183Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite