I'm not sure if its acceptable to use newer versions of curl.
This patch was rejected because of this reason: https://lore.kernel.org/git/7108764f437a25079c95a25c227eb79f9f4aee6a.1753273554.git.gargaditya08@live.com/
On 02/09/26 5:43 am, Wolfgang Faust wrote:
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> The documented purpose of imap-send is to upload draft emails for sending
> later, but it did not have any way to mark the messages as \Draft, so some
> email clients presented the result as an un-editable, un-sendable email
> even if it happened to be in a "Drafts" folder.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Faust <contrib-git@wolfgangfaust.com>
> ---
> Documentation/git-imap-send.adoc | 9 ++++++++-
> git-curl-compat.h | 8 ++++++++
> imap-send.c | 15 +++++++++++++--
> 3 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-imap-send.adoc b/Documentation/git-imap-send.adoc
> index 1814d94491..cf415df45a 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-imap-send.adoc
> +++ b/Documentation/git-imap-send.adoc
> @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-imap-send - Send a collection of patches from stdin to an IMAP folder
> SYNOPSIS
> --------
> [synopsis]
> -git imap-send [-v] [-q] [--[no-]curl] [(--folder|-f) <folder>]
> +git imap-send [-v] [-q] [--[no-]curl] [--[no-]draft] [(--folder|-f) <folder>]
> git imap-send --list
>
>
> @@ -55,6 +55,13 @@ OPTIONS
> using libcurl. Ignored if Git was built with the NO_OPENSSL option
> set.
>
> +`--draft`::
> +`--no-draft`::
> + Mark uploaded messages with the IMAP `\Draft` flag. The default is `--no-draft`.
> ++
> +With libcurl, `--draft` requires version 8.13.0 or later.
> +Older libcurl still uploads the message but cannot set the flag.
> +
> `--list`::
> Run the IMAP LIST command to output a list of all the folders present.
>
> diff --git a/git-curl-compat.h b/git-curl-compat.h
> index dccdd4d6e5..032aaf7126 100644
> --- a/git-curl-compat.h
> +++ b/git-curl-compat.h
> @@ -67,4 +67,12 @@
> #define GIT_CURL_HAVE_CURLOPT_TCP_KEEPCNT
> #endif
>
> +/**
> + * CURLOPT_UPLOAD_FLAGS and CURLULFLAG_* were added in 8.13.0,
> + * released in April 2025.
> + */
> +#if LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM >= 0x080D00
> +#define GIT_CURL_HAVE_CURLOPT_UPLOAD_FLAGS
> +#endif
> +
> #endif
> diff --git a/imap-send.c b/imap-send.c
> index 0d16d02029..bf1d2cf74d 100644
> --- a/imap-send.c
> +++ b/imap-send.c
> @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
> #include "setup.h"
> #include "strbuf.h"
> #ifdef USE_CURL_FOR_IMAP_SEND
> +#include "git-curl-compat.h"
> #include "http.h"
> #endif
>
> @@ -49,10 +50,11 @@
> static int verbosity;
> static int list_folders;
> static int use_curl = USE_CURL_DEFAULT;
> +static int opt_draft;
> static char *opt_folder;
>
> static char const * const imap_send_usage[] = {
> - N_("git imap-send [-v] [-q] [--[no-]curl] [(--folder|-f) <folder>] < <mbox>"),
> + N_("git imap-send [-v] [-q] [--[no-]curl] [--[no-]draft] [(--folder|-f) <folder>] < <mbox>"),
> "git imap-send --list",
> NULL
> };
> @@ -60,6 +62,7 @@ static char const * const imap_send_usage[] = {
> static struct option imap_send_options[] = {
> OPT__VERBOSITY(&verbosity),
> OPT_BOOL(0, "curl", &use_curl, "use libcurl to communicate with the IMAP server"),
> + OPT_BOOL(0, "draft", &opt_draft, "mark uploaded messages with the IMAP \\Draft flag"),
> OPT_STRING('f', "folder", &opt_folder, "folder", "specify the IMAP folder"),
> OPT_BOOL(0, "list", &list_folders, "list all folders on the IMAP server"),
> OPT_END()
> @@ -1416,7 +1419,8 @@ static int imap_store_msg(struct imap_store *ctx, struct strbuf *msg)
>
> box = ctx->name;
> prefix = !strcmp(box, "INBOX") ? "" : ctx->prefix;
> - ret = imap_exec_m(ctx, &cb, "APPEND \"%s%s\" ", prefix, box);
> + ret = imap_exec_m(ctx, &cb, "APPEND \"%s%s\" %s", prefix, box,
> + opt_draft ? "(\\Draft) " : "");
> imap->caps = imap->rcaps;
> if (ret != DRV_OK)
> return ret;
> @@ -1718,6 +1722,13 @@ static int curl_append_msgs_to_imap(struct imap_server_conf *server,
>
> curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_READDATA, &msgbuf);
>
> + if (opt_draft) {
> +#ifdef GIT_CURL_HAVE_CURLOPT_UPLOAD_FLAGS
> + curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_UPLOAD_FLAGS, CURLULFLAG_DRAFT);
> +#else
> + warning("--draft requires libcurl 8.13.0 or later");
> +#endif
> + }
> fprintf(stderr, "Sending %d message%s to %s folder...\n",
> total, (total != 1) ? "s" : "", server->folder);
> while (1) {Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com>