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1git-imap-send(1)
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4NAME
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6git-imap-send - Dump a mailbox from stdin into an imap folder
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9SYNOPSIS
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b1889c36 11'git imap-send'
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14DESCRIPTION
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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 sent with mail clients that cannot read mailbox
19files directly.
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21Typical usage is something like:
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b1889c36 23git format-patch --signoff --stdout --attach origin | git imap-send
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26CONFIGURATION
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ba020ef5 29'git-imap-send' requires the following values in the repository
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30configuration file (shown with examples):
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33[imap]
34 Folder = "INBOX.Drafts"
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36[imap]
37 Tunnel = "ssh -q user@server.com /usr/bin/imapd ./Maildir 2> /dev/null"
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39[imap]
40 Host = imap.server.com
41 User = bob
2b5f3ed3 42 Pass = pwd
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47BUGS
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49Doesn't handle lines starting with "From " in the message body.
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52Author
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54Derived from isync 1.0.1 by Mike McCormack.
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56Documentation
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58Documentation by Mike McCormack
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60GIT
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9e1f0a85 62Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite