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patchimap-send: clarify CRAM-MD5 vs LOGIN documentation

Subject: [PATCH] imap-send: clarify CRAM-MD5 vs LOGIN documentation

## tl;dr

One message between Jul 28, 2014 and Jul 28, 2014. Diffs are folded; open one to read it.

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Tony Finch· Jul 28, 2014, 10:49 UTC · lore
Explicitly mention that leaving imap.authMethod unset makes
git imap-send use the basic IMAP plaintext LOGIN command.
---
 Documentation/git-imap-send.txt | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Show changes to Documentation/git-imap-send.txt +2 −1
diff --git a/Documentation/git-imap-send.txt b/Documentation/git-imap-send.txt
index 875d283..770cbe8 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-imap-send.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-imap-send.txt
@@ -76,7 +76,8 @@ imap.preformattedHTML::

 imap.authMethod::
 	Specify authenticate method for authentication with IMAP server.
-	Current supported method is 'CRAM-MD5' only.
+	Current supported method is 'CRAM-MD5' only. If this is not set
+	then 'git imap-send' uses the basic IMAP plaintext LOGIN command.

 Examples
 ~~~~~~~~
-- 
2.0.3.dirty

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