imap-send: enable specifying the folder using the command line
Some users may very often want to imap-send messages to a folder other than the default set in the config. Add a command line argument for the same. While at it, fix minor mark-up inconsistencies in the existing documentation text. Signed-off-by: Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Aditya Garg committed
Jun 20, 2025 at 12:10 UTC
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Documentation/config/imap.adoc
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imap.folder::
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The folder to drop the mails into, which is typically the Drafts
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- folder. For example: "INBOX.Drafts", "INBOX/Drafts" or
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- "[Gmail]/Drafts". Required.
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+ folder. For example: `INBOX.Drafts`, `INBOX/Drafts` or
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+ `[Gmail]/Drafts`. The IMAP folder to interact with MUST be specified;
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+ the value of this configuration variable is used as the fallback
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+ default value when the `--folder` option is not given.
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imap.tunnel::
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Command used to set up a tunnel to the IMAP server through which
Documentation/git-imap-send.adoc
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@@ -9,21 +9,23 @@ git-imap-send - Send a collection of patches from stdin to an IMAP folder
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SYNOPSIS
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--------
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[verse]
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-'git imap-send' [-v] [-q] [--[no-]curl]
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+'git imap-send' [-v] [-q] [--[no-]curl] [(--folder|-f) <folder>]
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DESCRIPTION
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-----------
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-This command uploads a mailbox generated with 'git format-patch'
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+This command uploads a mailbox generated with `git format-patch`
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into an IMAP drafts folder. This allows patches to be sent as
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other email is when using mail clients that cannot read mailbox
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files directly. The command also works with any general mailbox
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-in which emails have the fields "From", "Date", and "Subject" in
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+in which emails have the fields `From`, `Date`, and `Subject` in
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that order.
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Typical usage is something like:
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-git format-patch --signoff --stdout --attach origin | git imap-send
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+------
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+$ git format-patch --signoff --stdout --attach origin | git imap-send
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+------
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OPTIONS
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--quiet::
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Be quiet.
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+-f <folder>::
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+--folder=<folder>::
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+ Specify the folder in which the emails have to saved.
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+ For example: `--folder=[Gmail]/Drafts` or `-f INBOX/Drafts`.
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+
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--curl::
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Use libcurl to communicate with the IMAP server, unless tunneling
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into it. Ignored if Git was built without the USE_CURL_FOR_IMAP_SEND
imap-send.c
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static int verbosity;
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static int use_curl = USE_CURL_DEFAULT;
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+static char *opt_folder;
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-static const char * const imap_send_usage[] = { "git imap-send [-v] [-q] [--[no-]curl] < <mbox>", NULL };
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+static const char * const imap_send_usage[] = { "git imap-send [-v] [-q] [--[no-]curl] [(--folder|-f) <folder>] < <mbox>", NULL };
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static struct option imap_send_options[] = {
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OPT__VERBOSITY(&verbosity),
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OPT_BOOL(0, "curl", &use_curl, "use libcurl to communicate with the IMAP server"),
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+ OPT_STRING('f', "folder", &opt_folder, "folder", "specify the IMAP folder"),
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OPT_END()
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};
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argc = parse_options(argc, (const char **)argv, "", imap_send_options, imap_send_usage, 0);
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+ if (opt_folder) {
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+ free(server.folder);
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+ server.folder = xstrdup(opt_folder);
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+ }
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if (argc)
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usage_with_options(imap_send_usage, imap_send_options);
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