Re: [PATCH v2] send-email: add ability to send a copy of sent emails to an IMAP folder

> On 22 Jul 2025, at 10:01 PM, Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com> wrote:
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>> On 22 Jul 2025, at 9:06 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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>> Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com> writes:
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>>> Also, as far as B2 is concerned, users can already do something like:
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>>> git format-patch -2 HEAD --to=someone@example.com --stdout | git imap-send
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>> If the above command line is sufficient for users, "git send-email"
>> does not need its feature to drive format-patch and do
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>>   git format-patch -o outgo/. -2 HEAD &&
>>   git send-email --to=someone@example.com ./outgo/*.patch
>> 
>> I used to think that way and I was naive ;-) But such an argument
>> completely misses the point of various send-email options that allow
>> the user to tweak CC: list programatically, compose the cover
>> letter, etc., doesn't it?
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> Hmm, yes it does, but is this functionality in the scope of this patch?
> 
> Honestly if you can use IMAP, you can also use SMTP, which makes me question if we really need this feature or not.