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

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 17, 2009, 18:39 UTC
Message-ID: <7vprhg52ne.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <200902171012.15755.johnflux@gmail.com>

John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com> writes:

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> 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".
> +

Are there any Gmail insiders who can comment on this alleged change? Is it for everybody? Is it only for new accounts? If I ask google about "gmail imap draft folder", I seem to be getting '[Gmail]/Drafts' version, and not the '[Google Mail]/Drafts' version, e.g.

    http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=78892
    http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=82367

It is not that I think John is talking BS. If there is a transition of some sort, we may want to keep the more prevalent one in the main example, while suggesting minority one as a ballback altenative.