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patch, 2 partsGoogle has renamed the imap folder

Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Google has renamed the imap folder

## tl;dr

2 messages between Feb 17, 2009 and Feb 17, 2009. Diffs are folded; open one to read it.

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John Tapsell· Feb 17, 2009, 10:45 UTC · lore

Also add a comment that the web interface wraps the lines

Signed-off-by: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/SubmittingPatches |   10 +++++++++-
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

Show changes to Documentation/SubmittingPatches +9 −1

diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index 9b559ad..aa41c9e 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -491,12 +491,18 @@ message, complete the addressing and subject fields, and press send.
 Gmail
 -----
 
+GMail does not appear to have any way to turn off line wrapping in the web
+interface, so this will mangle any emails that you send.  You can however
+use any IMAP email client to connect to the google imap server, and forward
+the emails through that.  Just make sure to disable line wrapping in that
+email client.
+
 Submitting properly formatted patches via Gmail is simple now that
 IMAP support is available. First, edit your ~/.gitconfig to specify your
 account settings:
 
 [imap]
-	folder = "[Gmail]/Drafts"
+	folder = "[Google Mail]/Drafts"
 	host = imaps://imap.gmail.com
 	user = user@gmail.com
 	pass = p4ssw0rd
@@ -513,3 +519,5 @@ command to send the patch emails to your Gmail Drafts folder.
 
 Go to your Gmail account, open the Drafts folder, find the patch email, fill
 in the To: and CC: fields and send away!
+If you get an error that the "Folder doesn't exist" try with folder = "[Gmail]/Drafts".
+

-- 
1.6.2.rc1

Jay Soffian· Feb 17, 2009, 17:45 UTC · re: John Tapsell · lore

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Google has renamed the imap folder

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:45 AM, John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Also add a comment that the web interface wraps the lines
>
> Signed-off-by: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/SubmittingPatches |   10 +++++++++-
>  1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
> index 9b559ad..aa41c9e 100644
> --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
> +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
> @@ -491,12 +491,18 @@ message, complete the addressing and subject fields, and press send.
>  Gmail
>  -----
>
> +GMail does not appear to have any way to turn off line wrapping in the web
> +interface, so this will mangle any emails that you send.  You can however
> +use any IMAP email client to connect to the google imap server, and forward
> +the emails through that.  Just make sure to disable line wrapping in that
> +email client.
> +
>  Submitting properly formatted patches via Gmail is simple now that
>  IMAP support is available. First, edit your ~/.gitconfig to specify your
>  account settings:
>
>  [imap]
> -       folder = "[Gmail]/Drafts"
> +       folder = "[Google Mail]/Drafts"
>        host = imaps://imap.gmail.com
>        user = user@gmail.com
>        pass = p4ssw0rd

Hmm, maybe just point users at send-email? It has SSL support built-in now so it can trivially use gmail's SMTP servers and you need not worry about mangling. So the only remaining reason to use the imap kludge is so that you have access to your gmail address book for filling in the To/Cc fields and the subject.

j.