Re: [PATCH v2] send-email: add ability to send a copy of sent emails to an IMAP folder

From: Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com>
Date: Jul 22, 2025, 16:31 UTC
Message-ID: <8596251B-7A3F-4220-8759-B75FF63964C0@live.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqo6tctez2.fsf@gitster.g>

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> On 22 Jul 2025, at 9:06 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com> writes:
> 
>> Also, as far as B2 is concerned, users can already do something like:
>> 
>> git format-patch -2 HEAD --to=someone@example.com --stdout | git imap-send
> 
> If the above command line is sufficient for users, "git send-email"
> does not need its feature to drive format-patch and do
> 
>    git format-patch -o outgo/. -2 HEAD &&
>    git send-email --to=someone@example.com ./outgo/*.patch
> 
> I used to think that way and I was naive ;-) But such an argument
> completely misses the point of various send-email options that allow
> the user to tweak CC: list programatically, compose the cover
> letter, etc., doesn't it?

Hmm, yes it does, but is this functionality in the scope of this patch?

Honestly if you can use IMAP, you can also use SMTP, which makes me question if we really need this feature or not.