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[PATCH] Google seems to have renamed the imap folder

From
John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 17, 2009, 09:06 UTC
Message-ID
<43d8ce650902170106k7635223pc886899adc609faf@mail.gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/SubmittingPatches |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index 9b559ad..f9850b3 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -496,7 +496,7 @@ 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 +513,4 @@ 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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