[PATCH 1/3] Documentation: Clarify use of Gmail for emailing patches

[PATCH 1/3] Documentation: Clarify use of Gmail for emailing patches

[Eddie Kovsky]

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

Re: [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: Clarify use of Gmail for emailing patches

[Jonathan Corbet]

On Thu, 5 Nov 2015 23:21:41 -0700
Eddie Kovsky <ewk@edkovsky.org> wrote:

>  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.

I actually think this section is correct as written - it's explicitly
about the gmail web interface.

Using gmail for email submission (note that doesn't involve IMAP) is a
bit out of scope for a document that is explicitly about email
*clients*.  Still, we could add a line saying that gmail can be used in
that mode, probably with a reference to the mutt configuration in your
other patch.  Please feel free to send a patch along those lines.

I've applied the other two, though, thanks.

jon