From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Tapsell Subject: [PATCH 2/6] Google has renamed the imap folder Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:36:11 +0000 Message-ID: <200902190736.11912.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 Thu Feb 19 08:38:02 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 1La3Tm-0002pi-ED for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:37:54 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752412AbZBSHgS (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:36:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752162AbZBSHgR (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:36:17 -0500 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.227]:17563 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752097AbZBSHgQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:36:16 -0500 Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id g9so168828rvb.5 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:36:15 -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=BwD+NkhgLVbKM6W4OEdwf4zsBdU+mc4FI0hwLFijNGM=; b=P+KkdFmrRw0G2Vh52fWz1Tj5ipqbQjmtnJMVQ+/o35cS4fHbAV1Tzteb7Q4Jat0H2v CXuA+ab4zPN6TKT+IeveP5HG/aozJv5dAHUiXwSJhJuTNEU/d/P0TkfNTO6IX9Sh4NH2 vVUN1IwxC6bXfjEayfAawS0X3Zyei3MG3ifI8= 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=yDOfkNUBtqlp6Zsi3MA8uf+HelRW3U2DpFYUMWULpDXEAA4MX6hvqpN5yAfl13KEKa G+u0VKAN/RNEFom56yjOJMbYToE1ukt+OmUidJ15abT+L5zMaf2xuN36dHu4faQ5FtUO KU0bDNBPg05DdK/fAgcWia6bVhHg5R5bkaOAw= Received: by 10.142.210.8 with SMTP id i8mr4122512wfg.343.1235028975070; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:36:15 -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 30sm1670233wff.7.2009.02.18.23.36.13 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:36:14 -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 | 12 +++++++++++- 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 9b559ad..ae7525d 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -491,18 +491,27 @@ 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. Alternatively, use "git send-email" instead. + 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 port = 993 sslverify = false +You might need to instead use: folder = "[Google Mail]/Drafts" if you get an error +that the "Folder doesn't exist". + Next, ensure that your Gmail settings are correct. In "Settings" the "Use Unicode (UTF-8) encoding for outgoing messages" should be checked. @@ -513,3 +522,4 @@ 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! + -- 1.6.2.rc1.3.g7d31b.dirty