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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-imap-send.txt10
-rw-r--r--imap-send.c8
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-imap-send.txt b/Documentation/git-imap-send.txt
index 57db955bd4..ad446b0e8b 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
-----
-Doesn't handle lines starting with "From " in the message body.
-
-
Author
------
Derived from isync 1.0.1 by Mike McCormack.
diff --git a/imap-send.c b/imap-send.c
index 5631930bc3..379dec491f 100644
--- a/imap-send.c
+++ b/imap-send.c
@@ -1306,8 +1306,14 @@ static int count_messages(struct msg_data *msg)
while (1) {
if (!prefixcmp(p, "From ")) {
+ p = strstr(p+5, "\nFrom: ");
+ if (!p) break;
+ p = strstr(p+7, "\nDate: ");
+ if (!p) break;
+ p = strstr(p+7, "\nSubject: ");
+ if (!p) break;
+ p += 10;
count++;
- p += 5;
}
p = strstr(p+5, "\nFrom ");
if (!p)