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send-email: add ability to send a copy of sent emails to an IMAP folder

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Some email providers like Apple iCloud Mail do not support sending a copy
of sent emails to the "Sent" folder if SMTP server is used. As a
workaround, various email clients like Thunderbird which rely on SMTP,
use IMAP to send a copy of sent emails to the "Sent" folder. Something
similar can be done if sending emails via `git send-email`, by using
the `git imap-send` command to send a copy of the sent email to an IMAP
folder specified by the user.

Add this functionality to `git send-email` by introducing a new
configuration variable `sendemail.imapfolder` and command line option
`--imap-folder` which specifies the IMAP folder to send a copy of the
sent emails to. If specified, a copy of the sent emails will be sent
by piping the emails to `git imap-send` command, after all emails are
sent via SMTP and the SMTP server has been closed.

Signed-off-by: Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Aditya Garg
2025-08-12 06:44:35 +00:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
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commands and replies will be printed. Useful to debug TLS
connection and authentication problems.
--imap-sent-folder=<folder>::
Some email providers (e.g. iCloud) do not send a copy of the emails sent
using SMTP to the `Sent` folder or similar in your mailbox. Use this option
to use `git imap-send` to send a copy of the emails to the folder specified
using this option. You can run `git imap-send --list` to get a list of
valid folder names, including the correct name of the `Sent` folder in
your mailbox. You can also use this option to send emails to a dedicated
IMAP folder of your choice.
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This feature requires setting up `git imap-send`. See linkgit:git-imap-send[1]
for instructions.
--batch-size=<num>::
Some email servers (e.g. 'smtp.163.com') limit the number of emails to be
sent per session (connection) and this will lead to a failure when