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[PATCH 2/2] Google has renamed the imap folder

From
John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 17, 2009, 10:12 UTC
Message-ID
<200902171012.15755.johnflux@gmail.com>
Also add a comment that the web interface wraps the lines
Signed-off-by: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/SubmittingPatches |   10 +++++++++-
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index 9b559ad..aa41c9e 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -491,12 +491,18 @@ message, complete the addressing and subject fields, and press send.
 Gmail
 -----
 
+GMail does not appear to have any way to turn off line wrapping in the web
+interface, so this will mangle any emails that you send.  You can however
+use any IMAP email client to connect to the google imap server, and forward
+the emails through that.  Just make sure to disable line wrapping in that
+email client.
+
 Submitting properly formatted patches via Gmail is simple now that
 IMAP support is available. First, edit your ~/.gitconfig to specify your
 account settings:
 
 [imap]
-	folder = "[Gmail]/Drafts"
+	folder = "[Google Mail]/Drafts"
 	host = imaps://imap.gmail.com
 	user = user@gmail.com
 	pass = p4ssw0rd
@@ -513,3 +519,5 @@ command to send the patch emails to your Gmail Drafts folder.
 
 Go to your Gmail account, open the Drafts folder, find the patch email, fill
 in the To: and CC: fields and send away!
+If you get an error that the "Folder doesn't exist" try with folder = "[Gmail]/Drafts".
+
-- 
1.6.2.rc1
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