Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] imap-send: correctly report "host" when using "tunnel"

> >   Side note: If somebody were proposing to add imap-send at all today,
> >   I'd probably say "no, that should be a separate project, and you
> >   should probably write it in some language that has a decent imap
> >   library". It really has nothing at all to do with Git in terms of
> >   implementation, and I suspect it's not super well maintained in
> >   general. But perhaps it is too late for that.
> 
> I think it's a reasonable feature, but in hindsight our mistake was to
> think that we should be perma-forking isync, which has since moved
> on. I've used isync's "mbsync" extensively for IMAP in other contexts,
> and it works well for that.
> 
> So if we were going back to the drawing board a "git-imap-sync" really
> should just be something in our mail tooling that can produce a Maildir,
> and if we wanted an IMAP helper it could invoke mbsync, offlineimap or
> various other "maildir to IMAP" bidirectional syncing utilities to
> "send" via IMAP.
> 
> So, just some hook support for format-patch with some documented
> examples should do it, but I won't be working on that task...