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authorRamkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>2010-03-22 23:37:52 +0530
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2010-03-24 11:00:25 -0700
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imap-send: Remove limitation on message body
There is a documented limitation on the body of any email not being able to contain lines starting with "From ". This patch removes that limitation by improving the parser to search for "From", "Date", and "Subject" fields in the email before considering it to be an email. Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-imap-send.txt10
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-imap-send.txt b/Documentation/git-imap-send.txt
index 57db955bd..ad446b0e8 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-imap-send.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-imap-send.txt
@@ -16,7 +16,9 @@ DESCRIPTION
This command uploads a mailbox generated with 'git format-patch'
into an IMAP drafts folder. This allows patches to be sent as
other email is when using mail clients that cannot read mailbox
-files directly.
+files directly. The command also works with any general mailbox
+in which emails have the fields "From", "Date", and "Subject" in
+that order.
Typical usage is something like:
@@ -118,12 +120,6 @@ Thunderbird in particular is known to be problematic. Thunderbird
users may wish to visit this web page for more information:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plain_text_e-mail_-_Thunderbird#Completely_plain_email
-
-BUGS
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-Doesn't handle lines starting with "From " in the message body.
-
-
Author
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Derived from isync 1.0.1 by Mike McCormack.