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 10:45:05 +0000 Message-ID: <200902171045.05904.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 11:46:45 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 1LZNTI-00055W-Jb for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:46:37 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751241AbZBQKpN (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2009 05:45:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751182AbZBQKpL (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2009 05:45:11 -0500 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.239]:59652 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751123AbZBQKpK (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2009 05:45:10 -0500 Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id g9so1453324rvb.5 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 02:45:09 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:subject:from:date:to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition:message-id; bh=wSdaylEIDJm2E9C+PvLKA5ZWWMsFbe4Xb4XYs5a+vSQ=; b=irL+IlQvGULK6GyFI1wCCNTlvg/vTsnRrOZ4bAYm6pRzrz0Np4pYXaPnLgWijx7Rgb TdyZnVa0yARKmY5GTCfOlM6NY6uEOxZt6I05UDrAt5Vl9lJ2piwheuLuh6ulHSI7BOXZ KBgeYONitQROxYpL1cfu2BB3xEHEdYRB07f3U= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=subject:from:date:to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=asGfapepHE7/0adUrWx0Yk69RsMsqDKUGYM51dqk56rIh56O+y41gEDW7BAnuGNjnv HGniQIJHScF8hrWHfTm98CdjxdUr99b+0TZaHY54KuDqQvaBXU8MNE0l5yWjcP7XOkUp ahGeOou8HX4VSIUjoFtXbuwkQcLCxMcD/LBkY= Received: by 10.141.122.20 with SMTP id z20mr432976rvm.216.1234867509073; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 02:45:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from johnflux-desktop.localnet (58-190-81-184.eonet.ne.jp [58.190.81.184]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f42sm6051225rvb.3.2009.02.17.02.45.07 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 17 Feb 2009 02:45:08 -0800 (PST) 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