[PATCH] docs: explain how to use `git imap-send --list` command to get a list of available folders
From: Aditya Garg <hidden>
Date: 2025-07-22 11:43:31
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
The output `git imap-send --list` command can be a bit confusing for new users since the IMAP LIST command output is very verbose. Help such users to analyse the same by using an example output. Signed-off-by: Aditya Garg <redacted> --- Documentation/git-imap-send.adoc | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-imap-send.adoc b/Documentation/git-imap-send.adoc
index 17147f93c3..6411fee046 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-imap-send.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/git-imap-send.adoc@@ -68,6 +68,34 @@ include::includes/cmd-config-section-rest.adoc[] include::config/imap.adoc[] +GETTING A LIST OF AVAILABLE FOLDERS +----------------------------------- + +In order to send an email to a specific folder, you need to know the correct name of +intended folder in your mailbox. The names like "Junk", "Trash" etc. displayed by +various email clients need to be the actual names of the folders stored in the mail +server of your email provider. + +In order to get the correct folder name to be used with `git imap-send`, you can run +`git imap-send --list`. This will display a list of valid folder names. An example +of such an output when run on a Gmail account is: + +......................... +* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "INBOX" +* LIST (\HasChildren \Noselect) "/" "[Gmail]" +* LIST (\All \HasNoChildren) "/" "[Gmail]/All Mail" +* LIST (\Drafts \HasNoChildren) "/" "[Gmail]/Drafts" +* LIST (\HasNoChildren \Important) "/" "[Gmail]/Important" +* LIST (\HasNoChildren \Sent) "/" "[Gmail]/Sent Mail" +* LIST (\HasNoChildren \Junk) "/" "[Gmail]/Spam" +* LIST (\Flagged \HasNoChildren) "/" "[Gmail]/Starred" +* LIST (\HasNoChildren \Trash) "/" "[Gmail]/Trash" +......................... + +Here, you can observe that the correct name for the "Junk" folder is `[Gmail]/Spam` +and for the "Trash" folder is `[Gmail]/Trash`. Similar logic can be used to determine +other folders as well. + EXAMPLES -------- Using tunnel mode:
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