Re: [PATCH/RFC] git-imap-send: use libcurl for implementation

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>>> I'm not sure I understand this comment. Even if SSL is not in use,
>>> wouldn't we be passing a regular pipe to curl, which would break?
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>> Yeah, we can't do that, and thus would have to keep the handwritten IMAP
>> implementation just for the tunnel case (allowing to drop only the
>> OpenSSL specific stuff), see my other email:
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/git@vger.kernel.org/msg56791.html (the
>> relevant part is pretty far down at the bottom).
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> I'd really love it if we could make this work with tunnels and
> eventually get rid of the hand-written imap code entirely. I agree with
> Jonathan that we probably need to keep it around a bit for people on
> older curl, but dropping it is a good goal in the long run. That code
> was forked from the isync project, but mangled enough that we could not
> take bug fixes from upstream. As not many people use imap-send, I
> suspect it is largely unmaintained and the source of many lurking
> bugs[1]. Replacing it with curl's maintained implementation is probably
> a good step.