[PATCH v5 2/2] send-email: enable copying emails to an IMAP folder without actually sending them
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Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com>
- Date
- Aug 12, 2025, 06:44 UTC
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`git imap-send` was built on the idea of copying emails to an IMAP folder like drafts, and sending them later using an email client. Currently the only way to do it is by piping output of `git format-patch` to IMAP send.
Add another way to do it by using `git send-email` with the `--use-imap-only` or `sendmail.useImapOnly` option. This allows users to use the advanced features of `git send-email` like tweaking Cc: list programmatically, compose the cover letter, etc. and then send the well formatted emails to an IMAP folder using `git imap-send`.
While at it, use `` instead of '' for --smtp-encryption ssl in help section of `git send-email`.
Signed-off-by: Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com> --- Documentation/config/sendemail.adoc | 1 + Documentation/git-send-email.adoc | 14 ++++++++++++++ git-send-email.perl | 9 ++++++++- 3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/config/sendemail.adoc b/Documentation/config/sendemail.adoc index dd2dbc87a0..90164c734d 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/sendemail.adoc +++ b/Documentation/config/sendemail.adoc @@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ sendemail.smtpServerPort:: sendemail.smtpServerOption:: sendemail.smtpUser:: sendemail.imapSentFolder:: +sendemail.useImapOnly:: sendemail.thread:: sendemail.transferEncoding:: sendemail.validate:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.adoc b/Documentation/git-send-email.adoc index d1c41a0dbd..a385f865fb 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-send-email.adoc +++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.adoc @@ -311,6 +311,20 @@ must be used for each option. This feature requires setting up `git imap-send`. See linkgit:git-imap-send[1] for instructions. +--use-imap-only:: +--no-use-imap-only:: + If this is set, all emails will only be copied to the IMAP folder specified + with `--imap-sent-folder` or `sendemail.imapSentFolder` and will not be sent + to the recipients. Useful if you just want to create a draft of the emails + and use another email client to send them. + If disabled with `--no-use-imap-only`, the emails will be sent like usual. + Disabled by default, but the `sendemail.useImapOnly` configuration + variable can be used to enable it. + ++ +This feature requires setting up `git imap-send`. See linkgit:git-imap-send[1] +for instructions. + --batch-size=<num>:: Some email servers (e.g. 'smtp.163.com') limit the number of emails to be sent per session (connection) and this will lead to a failure when diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl index b3cc237baa..96504e7be1 100755 --- a/git-send-email.perl +++ b/git-send-email.perl @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ sub usage { --smtp-user <str> * Username for SMTP-AUTH. --smtp-pass <str> * Password for SMTP-AUTH; not necessary. --smtp-encryption <str> * tls or ssl; anything else disables. - --smtp-ssl * Deprecated. Use '--smtp-encryption ssl'. + --smtp-ssl * Deprecated. Use `--smtp-encryption ssl`. --smtp-ssl-cert-path <str> * Path to ca-certificates (either directory or file). Pass an empty string to disable certificate verification. @@ -75,6 +75,8 @@ sub usage { --smtp-debug <0|1> * Disable, enable Net::SMTP debug. --imap-sent-folder <str> * IMAP folder where a copy of the emails should be sent. Make sure `git imap-send` is set up to use this feature. + --[no-]use-imap-only * Only copy emails to the IMAP folder specified by + `--imap-sent-folder` instead of actually sending them. --batch-size <int> * send max <int> message per connection. --relogin-delay <int> * delay <int> seconds between two successive login. @@ -296,6 +298,7 @@ sub do_edit { my $target_xfer_encoding = 'auto'; my $forbid_sendmail_variables = 1; my $outlook_id_fix = 'auto'; +my $use_imap_only = 0; my %config_bool_settings = ( "thread" => \$thread, @@ -312,6 +315,7 @@ sub do_edit { "forbidsendmailvariables" => \$forbid_sendmail_variables, "mailmap" => \$mailmap, "outlookidfix" => \$outlook_id_fix, + "useimaponly" => \$use_imap_only, ); my %config_settings = ( @@ -532,6 +536,7 @@ sub config_regexp { "smtp-auth=s" => \$smtp_auth, "no-smtp-auth" => sub {$smtp_auth = 'none'}, "imap-sent-folder=s" => \$imap_sent_folder, + "use-imap-only!" => \$use_imap_only, "annotate!" => \$annotate, "compose" => \$compose, "quiet" => \$quiet, @@ -1683,6 +1688,8 @@ sub send_message { if ($dry_run) { # We don't want to send the email. + } elsif ($use_imap_only) { + die __("The destination IMAP folder is not properly defined.") if !defined $imap_sent_folder; } elsif (defined $sendmail_cmd || file_name_is_absolute($smtp_server)) { my $pid = open my $sm, '|-'; defined $pid or die $!;
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