diff --git a/Documentation/config/imap.txt b/Documentation/config/imap.txt
index 7f30080c409..5cc46d87216 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/imap.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config/imap.txt
@@ -37,6 +37,6 @@ imap.preformattedHTML::
imap.authMethod::
Specify authenticate method for authentication with IMAP server.
- If you're running git-imap-send with the `--no-curl`
- option, the only supported method is 'CRAM-MD5'. If this is not set
+ If you're using imap.tunnel, the only supported method is 'CRAM-MD5'.
+ If this is not set
then 'git imap-send' uses the basic IMAP plaintext LOGIN command.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-imap-send.txt b/Documentation/git-imap-send.txt
index 202e3e59094..ddbbe819315 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-imap-send.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-imap-send.txt
@@ -37,16 +37,6 @@ OPTIONS
--quiet::
Be quiet.
---curl::
- Use libcurl to communicate with the IMAP server, unless tunneling
- into it. Ignored if Git was built without the USE_CURL_FOR_IMAP_SEND
- option set.
-
---no-curl::
- Talk to the IMAP server using git's own IMAP routines instead of
- using libcurl.
-
-
CONFIGURATION
-------------
diff --git a/imap-send.c b/imap-send.c
index 26f8f01e97a..9d7cb22285d 100644
--- a/imap-send.c
+++ b/imap-send.c
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ static const char * const imap_send_usage[] = { "git imap-send [-v] [-q] [--[no-
static struct option imap_send_options[] = {
OPT__VERBOSITY(&verbosity),
- OPT_BOOL(0, "curl", &use_curl, "use libcurl to communicate with the IMAP server"),
+ OPT_HIDDEN_BOOL(0, "curl", &use_curl, "use libcurl to communicate with the IMAP server"),
OPT_END()
};
@@ -1519,12 +1519,8 @@ int cmd_main(int argc, const char **argv)
if (argc)
usage_with_options(imap_send_usage, imap_send_options);
-#if defined(NO_OPENSSL)
- if (!use_curl) {
- warning("--no-curl not supported in this build");
- use_curl = 1;
- }
-#endif
+ if (!use_curl)
+ die(_("the --no-curl option to imap-send has been deprecated"));
if (!server.port)
server.port = server.use_ssl ? 993 : 143;@@ -1560,10 +1556,7 @@ int cmd_main(int argc, const char **argv)
/* write it to the imap server */
- if (server.tunnel)
- return append_msgs_to_imap(&server, &all_msgs, total);
-
- if (use_curl)
+ if (!server.tunnel)
return curl_append_msgs_to_imap(&server, &all_msgs, total);
return append_msgs_to_imap(&server, &all_msgs, total);
--
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