Subject: Re: [PATCH] add instructions on how to send patches to the mailing list with Gmail

From: Pierre Habouzit <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2008 10:10:06 +0100

On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 08:40:27PM +0000, Tom Preston-Werner wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 3:00 AM, Santi Béjar <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Tom Preston-Werner <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >> Gmail is one of the most popular email providers in the world. Now that Gmail
> >> supports IMAP, sending properly formatted patches via `git imap-send` is
> >> trivial. This section in SubmittingPatches explains how to do so.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Tom Preston-Werner <[email-masked]>
> >> ---
> >>  Documentation/SubmittingPatches |   27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>  1 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
> >> index a1e9100..f0295c6 100644
> >> --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
> >> +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
> >> @@ -456,3 +456,30 @@ This should help you to submit patches inline using KMail.
> >>
> >>  5) Back in the compose window: add whatever other text you wish to the
> >>  message, complete the addressing and subject fields, and press send.
> >> +
> >> +
> >> +Gmail
> >> +-----
> >> +
> >> +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"
> >> +       host = imaps://imap.gmail.com
> >> +       user = [email-masked]
> >> +       pass = p4ssw0rd
> >> +       port = 993
> >> +       sslverify = false
> >
> > Warning: It is not secure.
> 
> It is true that the certificate is not verified, but since the patches
> are destined for a public mailing list, this does not represent a
> large problem.

What he means is that the password is cleartext ;)
(I think)

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