On 22/07/25 4:44 pm, Aditya Garg wrote: > Some email providers like Apple iCloud Mail do not support sending a copy > of sent emails to the "Sent" folder if SMTP server is used. As a > workaround, various email clients like Thunderbird which rely on SMTP, > use IMAP to send a copy of sent emails to the "Sent" folder. Something > similar can be done if sending emails via `git send-email`, by using > the `git imap-send` command to send a copy of the sent email to an IMAP > folder specified by the user. > > Add this functionality to `git send-email` by introducing a new > configuration variable `sendemail.imapfolder` and command line option > `--imap-folder` which specifies the IMAP folder to send a copy of the > sent emails to. If specified, a copy of the sent emails will be sent > by piping the emails to `git imap-send` command, after the all emails are > sent via SMTP and the SMTP server has been closed. > > Signed-off-by: Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@xxxxxxxx> > --- > > v2 - Fix indentation in patch for imap-send.c > - Minor edits to commit message > > v3 - Rename imap folder to imap sent folder > - Make an error message shorter by removing unecessary details I just found a tiny bug here. It is sending emails to IMAP even if --dry-run is present. Will fix in v4. Also, this little bug has also gave me an easier way to implement --use-imap-only, which is what Junio suggested before.
