On 22 July 2025 10:39:01 am IST, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@xxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Or maybe you mean, ONLY send via imap and don't use SMTP? Like >> this users can use their email clients to send emails? > >Exactly. You sold this feature as "have send-email send the >message, and keep an extra copy you sent in your Sent imap folder". > >I pointed out that "have send-email do everything it would normally >do before it talks to MSA or talk SMTP to send messages out, and >instead drive imap-send to store these messages in a folder like >imap-send users have used the program so far---as the user will send >the messages out of their draft folder as was traditionally done by >any imap-send users, send-email will *not* send anything out itself" >as a possible different way send-email may want to use imap-send. > >These are two very different use cases. We could organize things >this way: > > A1. When imap-folder is specified, that IMAP folder will get an extra > copy, in addition to what send-email sends out; > > A2. When yet another new option, --send-email-no-send, is > specified, send-email would not send any messages out. Even > when this option is in effect, if --imap-folder is specified, > that IMAP folder will get an extra copy, in addition to what > send-email would send out (which is nothing). > >Or alternatively, we can have two very different operation modes >that both involve imap-send: > > B1. When --imap-sent-folder is specified, that IMAP folder will get > an extra copy, in addition to what send-email sent out via its > usual route (like by invoking MSA or talking SMTP) > > B2. When --imap-outgo-folder is specified, that IMAP folder will > get the outgo copy, later to be sent by the user (just like a > user of imap-send would usually use), and send-email would not > send out anything by its usual route. > >I thought the latter would be easier to explain to end-users, which >is why "sent" or "fcc" or something like that should be in the name >of the option when operating in the mode the patch implements. > >This brings up a yet another possibility. Invoking imap-send can be >a new third way send-email uses to send out the messages, in addition >to existing (1) invoking a local "/usr/lib/sendmail" program, or (2) >talking SMTP to smarthost. That would be very easy to explain the >operating mode B2 to users of send-email or users of imap-send, but >it would be a bit awkward to find where B1 conceptually fits. > Honestly, B2 looks like a doable thing, but I don't think people would really want to use this mode. Considering the fact that using an MSA or SMTP is much better, and commonly used. Also, imap-send was definitely not in use, especially looking that the fact that it was broken for a very long time. I'll rename it to imap-sent-folder, but the name looks more like it is only for "Sent" folder, and no other folder can be used. For example I like to keep a copy of the emails I send to git mailing list in a seperate 'git' folder in my mailbox. I can set the folder name as git, and thus have a copy saved there. What do you think about that?
