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

From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Jul 21, 2025, 16:34 UTC
Message-ID: <CAPig+cQGhy57YWLpyxZyMEUb5jc=9wHWYOOhjzEaj1yHf6MC6Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <87a890182591c9c21061e85834fc99a766252611.1753092192.git.gargaditya08@live.com>

On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 6:05 AM Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com> wrote:

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> Some email providers like Apple iCloud Mail do not support sending a copy
> of sent emails to the "Sent" folder if SMTP server is used. As a
> workaround, various email clients like Thunderbird which rely on SMTP,
> use IMAP to send a copy of sent emails to the "Sent" folder. Something
> similar can be done if sending emails via `git send-email`, by using
> the `git imap-send` command to send a copy of the sent email to an IMAP
> folder specified by the user.
>
> Add this functionality to `git send-email` by introducing a new
> configuration variable `sendemail.imapfolder` and command line option
> `--imap-folder` which specifies the IMAP folder to send a copy of the
> sent emails to. If specified, a copy of the sent emails will be sent
> by piping the emails to `git imap-send` command, after the all emails are
> sent via SMTP and the SMTP server has been closed.

s/the all/all/

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> Signed-off-by: Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com>
> ---
> @@ -299,6 +299,18 @@ must be used for each option.
> +This feature requires setting up `git imap-send`. See linkgit:git-imap-send[1]
> +to get instructions for the same.

Perhaps:

  This feature requires setting up `git imap-send`. See linkgit:git-imap-send[1]
  for instructions.

> diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
> @@ -73,6 +73,8 @@ sub usage {
> +    --imap-folder           <str>  * IMAP folder where a copy of the emails should be sent.
> +                                     Make sure `git imap-send` is setup to use this feature.

s/setup/set up/