# [PATCH] imap-send: Tell cURL to use imap:// or imaps://

1 messages from 2016-08-17 to 2016-08-17. Participants: Anders Kaseorg.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/43870

## Anders Kaseorg, 2016-08-17 18:58

Subject: [PATCH] imap-send: Tell cURL to use imap:// or imaps://
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1608171449371.57685@howe-and-ser-moving.mit.edu>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/alpine.DEB.2.10.1608171449371.57685%40howe-and-ser-moving.mit.edu

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Right now the imap:// or imaps:// part of imap.host is not being
passed on to cURL.  Perhaps it was able to guess correctly under some
circumstances, but I was not able to find one; it was just trying to
make HTTP requests for me.  It’s better to be explicit in any case.

Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
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 imap-send.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/imap-send.c b/imap-send.c
index 938c691..7dd5acf 100644
--- a/imap-send.c
+++ b/imap-send.c
@@ -1410,6 +1410,7 @@ static CURL *setup_curl(struct imap_server_conf *srvc)
 	curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_USERNAME, server.user);
 	curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PASSWORD, server.pass);
 
+	strbuf_addstr(&path, server.use_ssl ? "imaps://" : "imap://");
 	strbuf_addstr(&path, server.host);
 	if (!path.len || path.buf[path.len - 1] != '/')
 		strbuf_addch(&path, '/');
-- 
2.10.0.rc0


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