Re: imap-send with gmail: curl_easy_perform() failed: URL using bad/illegal format or missing URL

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 30, 2017, 02:04 UTC
Message-ID: <20171130020445.GF15098@aiede.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20171129171301.l3coiflkfyy533yz@NUC.localdomain>

(+cc: Nicolas) Hi,

Doron Behar wrote:

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> I'm trying to send a patch with the command `git imap-send`, I used the
> examples in the manual page as the main reference for my configuration:
>
> ```
> [imap]
> 	folder = "[Gmail]/Drafts"
> 	host = imaps://imap.gmail.com
> 	user = doron.behar@gmail.com
> 	port = 993
> 	sslverify = false
> ```
>
> This is my `cat patch.out | git imap-send` output:
>
> ```
> Password for 'imaps://doron.behar@gmail.com@imap.gmail.com':
> sending 3 messages
> curl_easy_perform() failed: URL using bad/illegal format or missing URL
> ```

Thanks for reporting this. I suspect this is related to v2.15.0-rc0~63^2 (imap-send: use curl by default when possible, 2017-09-14) --- e.g. perhaps our custom IMAP code was doing some escaping on the username that libcurl does not do.

"man git imap-send" says this is a recommended configuration, so I don't think it's a configuration error.

What platform are you on?  What version of libcurl are you using?

In libcurl::lib/easy.c I am also seeing

    if(mcode)
      return CURLE_URL_MALFORMAT; /* TODO: return a proper error! */

which looks suspicious.

Nicolas, am I on the right track?

Thanks, Jonathan

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> The URI doesn't seem OK to me, I tried using `imap.user = doron.behar` and the
> URI was `imaps://doron.behar@imap.gmail.com` but that ended up with the same
> error as in the previous case.
>
> I would love to get some help here, a Google Search didn't help as well.
>
> Thanks.