From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Tapsell Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Google has renamed the imap folder Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:12:15 +0000 Message-ID: <200902171012.15755.johnflux@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Feb 17 11:41:24 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LZNOF-0003ab-HT for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:41:24 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751535AbZBQKjp (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2009 05:39:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751518AbZBQKjn (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2009 05:39:43 -0500 Received: from static.88-198-22-168.clients.your-server.de ([88.198.22.168]:8678 "EHLO basyskom.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753325AbZBQKjm (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2009 05:39:42 -0500 Received: by basyskom.de (Postfix, from userid 1051) id 1F143398864; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:12:20 +0100 (CET) X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on new.basyskom.de X-Spam-Info: No, score=-1.6 required=6.3 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_PBL, RDNS_DYNAMIC autolearn=no version=3.2.5 Received: from johnflux-desktop.localnet (58-190-81-184.eonet.ne.jp [58.190.81.184]) by basyskom.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D4263981FF for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:12:18 +0100 (CET) Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Also add a comment that the web interface wraps the lines Signed-off-by: John Tapsell --- Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 10 +++++++++- 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 9b559ad..aa41c9e 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -491,12 +491,18 @@ message, complete the addressing and subject fields, and press send. Gmail ----- +GMail does not appear to have any way to turn off line wrapping in the web +interface, so this will mangle any emails that you send. You can however +use any IMAP email client to connect to the google imap server, and forward +the emails through that. Just make sure to disable line wrapping in that +email client. + Submitting properly formatted patches via Gmail is simple now that IMAP support is available. First, edit your ~/.gitconfig to specify your account settings: [imap] - folder = "[Gmail]/Drafts" + folder = "[Google Mail]/Drafts" host = imaps://imap.gmail.com user = user@gmail.com pass = p4ssw0rd @@ -513,3 +519,5 @@ command to send the patch emails to your Gmail Drafts folder. Go to your Gmail account, open the Drafts folder, find the patch email, fill in the To: and CC: fields and send away! +If you get an error that the "Folder doesn't exist" try with folder = "[Gmail]/Drafts". + -- 1.6.2.rc1