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From: Eddie Kovsky <ewk@edkovsky.org>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: Clarify use of Gmail for emailing patches
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 23:21:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151106062141.GA16377@athena> (raw)

Clarify that Gmail can be used to send patches, provided you use Gmail
as a server and avoid the Web UI.

Signed-off-by: Eddie Kovsky <ewk@edkovsky.org>
---
 Documentation/email-clients.txt | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/email-clients.txt b/Documentation/email-clients.txt
index aba85b39a400..ca38031c4762 100644
--- a/Documentation/email-clients.txt
+++ b/Documentation/email-clients.txt
@@ -250,7 +250,8 @@ Works.  Use "Insert file..." or external editor.
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 Gmail (Web GUI)
 
-Does not work for sending patches.
+Gmail works fine for sending patches provided you do NOT use the web interface
+and just use Gmail as an IMAP server with a text based email client.
 
 Gmail web client converts tabs to spaces automatically.
 
-- 
2.6.2


             reply	other threads:[~2015-11-06  6:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-06  6:21 Eddie Kovsky [this message]
2015-11-11 17:29 ` [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: Clarify use of Gmail for emailing patches Jonathan Corbet

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