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

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