From 04133f5bc4f3dc7c847f4ba50e02486bcc117d94 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Aditya Garg Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2025 06:44:35 +0000 Subject: send-email: add ability to send a copy of sent emails to an IMAP folder 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 all emails are sent via SMTP and the SMTP server has been closed. Signed-off-by: Aditya Garg Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/config/sendemail.adoc | 1 + Documentation/git-send-email.adoc | 12 ++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/config/sendemail.adoc b/Documentation/config/sendemail.adoc index 4722334657..dd2dbc87a0 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/sendemail.adoc +++ b/Documentation/config/sendemail.adoc @@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ sendemail.smtpServer:: sendemail.smtpServerPort:: sendemail.smtpServerOption:: sendemail.smtpUser:: +sendemail.imapSentFolder:: sendemail.thread:: sendemail.transferEncoding:: sendemail.validate:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.adoc b/Documentation/git-send-email.adoc index 5335502d68..d1c41a0dbd 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-send-email.adoc +++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.adoc @@ -299,6 +299,18 @@ must be used for each option. commands and replies will be printed. Useful to debug TLS connection and authentication problems. +--imap-sent-folder=:: + Some email providers (e.g. iCloud) do not send a copy of the emails sent + using SMTP to the `Sent` folder or similar in your mailbox. Use this option + to use `git imap-send` to send a copy of the emails to the folder specified + using this option. You can run `git imap-send --list` to get a list of + valid folder names, including the correct name of the `Sent` folder in + your mailbox. You can also use this option to send emails to a dedicated + IMAP folder of your choice. ++ +This feature requires setting up `git imap-send`. See linkgit:git-imap-send[1] +for instructions. + --batch-size=:: Some email servers (e.g. 'smtp.163.com') limit the number of emails to be sent per session (connection) and this will lead to a failure when -- cgit v1.3-5-g9baa