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.password:: 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 67Examples 68~~~~~~~~ 69 70Using tunnel mode: 71 72.......................... 73[imap] 74 folder = "INBOX.Drafts" 75 tunnel = "ssh -q -C user@example.com /usr/bin/imapd ./Maildir 2> /dev/null" 76.......................... 77 78Using direct mode: 79 80......................... 81[imap] 82 folder = "INBOX.Drafts" 83 host = imap://imap.example.com 84 user = bob 85 pass = p4ssw0rd 86.......................... 87 88Using direct mode with SSL: 89 90......................... 91[imap] 92 folder = "INBOX.Drafts" 93 host = imaps://imap.example.com 94 user = bob 95 pass = p4ssw0rd 96 port = 123 97 sslverify = false 98.......................... 99 100 101CAUTION 102------- 103It is still your responsibility to make sure that the email message 104sent by your email program meets the standards of your project. 105Many projects do not like patches to be attached. Some mail 106agents will transform patches (e.g. wrap lines, send them as 107format=flowed) in ways that make them fail. You will get angry 108flames ridiculing you if you don't check this. 109 110Thunderbird in particular is known to be problematic. Thunderbird 111users may wish to visit this web page for more information: 112 http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plain_text_e-mail_-_Thunderbird#Completely_plain_email 113 114 115BUGS 116---- 117Doesn't handle lines starting with "From " in the message body. 118 119 120Author 121------ 122Derived from isync 1.0.1 by Mike McCormack. 123 124Documentation 125-------------- 126Documentation by Mike McCormack 127 128GIT 129--- 130Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite