feature needed imap-send pass as cli switch

I tend to have my .gitconfig shared on github with a bunch of other config files and this has been ok, until submitting a patch here I needed to use imap-send, and the only way I see in the documentation is to put my email password in .gitconfig, obviously I can't push this up to my remote as I usually do. I'd like to see an option to pass the password on the cli, either as an input prompt or as just an argument to an option, or both. I think storing it in the config file is a security risk, storing passwords in plaintext is just bad practice.

if it's already possible could someone share how with me? and perhaps patch the documentation to include how.

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@gmail.com> wrote:

Are you sending patches through gmail?  If so, check out:

http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitTips#head-a015948617d9becbdc9836776f96ad244ba87cb8

You can add .msmtprc to your .gitignore and keep it chmod 600.

Sure, it's cheating -- instead of keeping the data in .gitconfig we're now keeping it in .mstmprc, but maybe it's a suitable workaround?